Prosecutors make final arguments against new trial for Jeff Pelley
Jeff Pelley's petition for post-conviction relief continues, and both parties have now made their cases. Whether he gets a new trial is up to a judge.
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Jeff Pelley's petition for post-conviction relief continues, and both parties have now made their cases. Whether he gets a new trial is up to a judge.
Attorneys for Jeff Pelley filed briefs on the heels of hearings in March that Pelley hopes will pave the way toward a new trial.
The judge will take months to decide if Pelley's constitutional rights were violated in his original trial.
The failure of Jeff Pelley's trial attorneys to interview witnesses in Florida means he did not receive effective counsel, Pelley now argues.
Prosecutors have called Beehler's testimony 'hearsay within hearsay' and argue it wouldn't be allowed in court.