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May 15, 2008

Bunnell trial: Jury goes home again without verdict

Journal photo / Bob Breidenbach
Katherine Bunnell and her lawyer, Gerard H. Donley, listen as the jury says that a verdict has not yet been reached after a second day of deliberations.

PROVIDENCE -- The jury in the trial of Katherine Bunnell, charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old nephew Thomas "T.J." Wright, has gone home for the day without reaching a verdict in Providence County Superior Court.

On the second day in which it deliberated -- and the first all-day session -- the jury asked at least two questions today, but lawyers would not disclose what they were.

Copies of trial transcripts were taken into chambers for review by the prosecution and defense lawyers in order to answer the jury questions.

Bunnell, 24, is charged with her boyfriend at the time, Gilbert Delestre, 27, with fatally beating “T.J.” Wright after the boy, one of five children in the home, made a mess in their living room. They arrived at the Woonsocket apartment around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 30, 2004, to find some milk and yogurt that T.J. had spilled on the floor.

Bunnell and Delestre are being tried separately on the same charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

When the jury returned to the courtroom late afternoon, Judge Gilbert V. Indeglia said he had sent a note asking if jurors wanted to continue deliberating today or come back tomorrow, and they indicated tomorrow morning.

Read The Journal's coverage of the lawyers' closing arguments yesterday in the case.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer John Castellucci

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