A jury found Johnathan Quiles guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his pregnant 16-year-old niece Iyana Sawyer following about an hour after deliberations on Thursday evening.
After five days of prosecution testimony, the defense called three witnesses Thursday in the murder trial of a Jacksonville man accused of raping, impregnating and killing his niece in 2018.
Prosecution witnesses will continue testimony Wednesday in the trial of a Jacksonville man accused of raping, impregnating and killing his niece in 2018, and many in the court are waiting to see if the state will call Johnathan Quiles’ brother to testify against him.
The prosecution is arguing Johnathan Quiles dumped his niece Iyana Sawyer's body in an auto junkyard, where it was later taken to a landfill and never found