LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. – Jury deliberations were pushed back to next week in the murder trial of Dale Warner.
Dale Warner is accused of killing his wife, Dee Warner, in 2021, whose remains were found years later in a fertilizer tank on the couple’s Lenawee County property.
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The prosecution and defense rested their cases in the trial on Thursday, March 5, and jury deliberations began.
Deliberations were expected to continue into Friday, March 6. However, one of the jurors could not make it to court due to a medical emergency.
The judge called three of the four alternate jurors back to the courtroom and asked whether they were still impartial enough to be selected as replacements for the deliberations.
The alternate jurors were initially excused from the trial once deliberations began, and weren’t told not to watch anything about the case.
All three alternate jurors said they had spoken to their spouses about the case, and one of them mentioned they watched news coverage of the case after jury deliberations.
Ultimately, none of the alternate jurors were chosen, and the judge adjourned jury deliberations until Tuesday, March 10.
All jurors, including the alternate jurors, were also told not to watch any news coverage as they wait for deliberations to resume.