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Jurors Get Owens Death Penalty Case

Panel Will Begin Deliberations Monday Morning

POSTED: 6:52 pm MDT May 9, 2008
UPDATED: 9:20 am MDT May 10, 2008

Jurors in the Sir Mario Owens death penalty case will begin deliberations Monday morning after six hours of closing arguments on Friday.

Owens could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder in the June 2005 shooting deaths of Javad Marshall-Fields and Vivian Wolfe.

Wolfe was Marshall-Fields' fiancé.

Marshall-Fields was to testify against Owens' friend in a separate shooting case. Prosecutors told jurors that Owens was afraid that his role in the murder of Gregory Vann would be uncovered.

Owens was eventually convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in that case.

In dramatic closing arguments, prosecutors showed jurors pictures of Marshall-Fields and Wolfe when they were alive and then pictures of them on the autopsy table.

Prosecutors quoted Owens telling a witness that Wolfe died because "she was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

The defense countered that the prosecution's case was based on evidence that was "ignored, overstated and for sale."

Owens' defense team said that prosecutors coerced witnesses to shape their testimony to fit the prosecution case.

If the jury finds Owens guilty of first-degree murder, they will decide if he should face execution by lethal injection.

Two of Owens' friends, Robert Ray and Parrish Carter, will also be tried in connection to the murders of Marshall-Fields and Wolfe.

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