One day after closing statements, the jury in the Leon Ford murder trial says they are deadlocked. Prosecutors accused Ford of murdering and dismembering John "Mike" Crites in 2011.
The fate of Leon Ford is now in the hands of a Lewis and Clark County jury. Ford’s three-week-long deliberate homicide trial wrapped up early Tuesday afternoon in Helena.
Attorneys in the trial of Leon Ford are set to make their final cases to the jury Tuesday morning, after the defense called its final witnesses on Monday.