{"id":390976,"date":"2025-11-19T23:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390976\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:52:30","slug":"philly-officers-murder-trial-deliberations-to-restart-thursday-after-jurors-face-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390976\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly officer&#8217;s murder trial: Deliberations to restart Thursday after jurors face medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/E5C316D8E21C1ED912CAC896436118C4.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphia officer's murder trial: Deliberations to restart Wednesday\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; A medical emergency with a juror caused a delay in the deliberations for the trial of two men accused of killing a Philadelphia police sergeant.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Jurors deliberated for about an hour before a medical emergency required one juror to be replaced with an alternate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The judge instructed the jury to discard today&#8217;s discussions and start fresh tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Jobranny Martinez-Fernandez and Hendrick Pe\u00f1a-Fernandez are on trial for the murder of Sgt. Richard Mendez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Many officers showed support by attending the courtroom proceedings.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Oct. 12, 2023, the prosecution stated that Martinez-Fernandez and Pe\u00f1a-Fernandez, along with Alexander Batista-Polanco and Jes\u00fas Madera-Dur\u00e1n, were attempting to steal a Jeep at the airport&#8217;s Terminal D parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They were confronted by Sgt. Mendez and Officer Raul Ortiz. The men allegedly opened fire, killing Mendez and injuring Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police said Martinez-Fernandez took Mendez&#8217;s gun before the group drove Madera-Dur\u00e1n, who was also shot, to the hospital where he later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The prosecution presented several witnesses, including police officers and experts, during the trial. Batista-Polanco also testified against the two defendants about what happened that night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Connection to a car theft ring<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators later linked the defendants to a car theft ring that stole high-end cars and resold them in Camden County. Thirteen people were arrested in connection with this investigation, including Martinez-Fernandez, Pe\u00f1a-Fernandez, and Alexander Batista-Polanco, who previously pled guilty to lesser charges.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It remains unclear what the jury&#8217;s verdict will be, and if the sentencing will occur tomorrow if a verdict is reached.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/organization\/philadelphia-police-department\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A medical emergency with a juror caused a delay in the deliberations for the trial of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":390977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,6082,50,12632,1448,2830,1311,14844,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-390976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-organization","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-police-department","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115579057250161879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}