On Trial

Judge considering defense request

Since noon, Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. has been in his chambers trying to decide whether to allow the jury to consider convicting Dandridge of first-degree murder.

At 1:45 p.m., he called all six attorneys into his chambers, and Richmond Sheriff’s Capt. Roger Moss just announced that court will reconvene at 3:15.

The jury still has not heard closing arguments,

A conviction of capital murder carries only two possible sentences—life in prison without parole or the death penalty. A conviction of first-degree murder carries up to life in prison.

The defense has argued that Dandridge should not be eligible for a capital murder conviction because they say he has not been proven to be the “immediate perpetrator” of the Tucker/Baskerville deaths.

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