Teton County rape case ends in mistrial for the second time
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Ryan Richard Berry
DRIGGS District Seven Court Judge Steven Boyce declared a mistrial after a Teton County jury of eight women and four men said they had received confidential evidence during deliberation this afternoon.
Tetonia resident Ryan Richard Berry, 41, was on trial for four felony counts including rape, destruction of evidence, supplying alcohol to a minor and video voyeurism. This was the second time his jury trial ended in a mistrial.
“I’m going to discuss the outcome with the victim and decide whether to retry it,” said Teton County Prosecutor Bailey Smith after the mistrial was declared.
DRIGGS — District Seven Court Judge Steven Boyce declared a mistrial Monday afternoon for a three year old felony rape case. At the end of the four-hour-long jury selection, there were simply not enough jurors in the pool available to serve after 11 did not show for duty. Of the 60 jurors called to the […]