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| Jury convicts Angola inmate of murder |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/28/2005 |
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A 12-member West Feliciana Parish, La., jury has convicted an inmate at Angola of second-degree murder -- his second conviction for killing a cellmate. In 1990, an Orleans Parish jury found Michael Kelly guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his Orleans Parish Prison cellmate. That trial lasted 90 minutes from jury selection to verdict. Kelly's trial in the February 26th, 2004, stabbing death of Joseph Leon Chase in a shower at Angola's Camp D lasted a day and a half, but jurors took just 14 minutes to reach a verdict. Kelly faces another mandatory life sentence. Chase was serving life for first-degree murder and 99 years for armed robbery. He died of 27 stab wounds from a prison-made knife. Prosecutor Haley Major Green says Kelly inflicted some of the wounds while a Louisiana State Penitentiary security guard tried to separate the two. Witnesses say Kelly tried to get prison officials to move him to a different cell. Defense attorney Rhonda Covington says the exact reason for problems between the two are unknown, but Kelly's efforts to get to a different cell were inconsistent with planning a murder. |
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