Dayonte Resiles, the defendant whose bold escape from a crowded courtroom stunned South Florida and led to a five-day manhunt, was found guilty Friday morning of first-degree murder in the 2014 stabbing death of Jill Halliburton Su.
Attorneys for former fugitive Dayonte Resiles used the closing arguments at his murder trial Tuesday to cast suspicion on the victim’s husband, a respected scientist who sat stoically as jurors were asked to blame him for the grisly crime.
Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the case of Dayonte Resiles, the murder suspect whose first trial ended last month in a hung jury. Resiles, 27, is accused of murder in the 2014 stabbing death of Jill Halliburton Su, a Davie woman whose lifeless body was discovered with two dozen wounds, bound in the bathtub of her home.
A Broward Circuit Court jury ended another day of deliberations Sunday with no verdict for Dayonte Resiles, 29, who is on trial for the 2014 murder of Jill Halliburton Su at her home in Davie.
Jurors finished a second day of deliberations in the high-profile murder trial of Dayonte Resiles without reaching a verdict on Saturday evening. The jury will pick up its discussions on Sunday morning.