The conviction and death penalty sentence of Donald Fell for the 2000 abduction and murder of a Vermont woman was vacated Friday because of juror misconduct.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Vermont said Fell, convicted in 2005 in the abduction of Teresca King in a Rutland supermarket parking lot on Nov. 27, 2000 and her murder three days later, will get a new trial because a rogue juror, Juror 143, visited crime scenes during the trial and then repeatedly lied about it, and therefore violated “the ‘fundamental integrity’ of Fell’s trial.”
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