Michael Dunn will wait until Friday to see if a Florida judge sentences him on first-degree murder charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, according to the Associated Press.
Dunn has been convicted of attempted murder in a confrontation over loud music, the AP reported. Dunn was charged with fatally shooting Davis, of Marietta, Georgia, in 2012 after the argument over loud music coming from the SUV occupied by Davis and three friends.
Jurors deadlocked last month on the murder charge against Michael Dunn in the shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Davis outside a Jacksonville convenience store, according to the AP.
Prosecutors have vowed to retry him on the count and Dunn could face a maximum of 60 years in prison for the charges on which he already has been convicted, the AP reported.
Dunn's attorney asked for the sentencing be postponed until after the second trial, according to the AP.
Defense attorney Cory Strolla says he is concerned that statements Dunn makes at a sentencing hearing could be used against him in his second trial, the AP reported. Strolla also said he is stepping down as Dunn's attorney and asked Judge Russell Healey to appoint public defenders.
Healey, an interim circuit judge, said he has never come across a case with similar circumstances in 150 trials, according to the AP.
"I've never had a hung jury," Healey said at Monday's hearing, the AP reported.
A mistrial was declared on the murder charge after jurors deliberated for four days with the 12 jurors finding him guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder and a count of firing into an occupied car, according to the AP.
