Rick Halperin Mon, 5 Jan Skip to site navigation Press enter. Jackson, 28, of Summer Street, will go on trial for the Aug. Slaton, 19, of Vestal Road. A co-defendant, Antwon Lanier, 25, of Mahoning County Jail, is charged with committing the same crimes against Slaton.
Laniers capital jury trial is to begin March 2 before Judge Durkin. The prosecution alleges Slaton was raped in South Side Park before being taken to McKelvey Lake on the East Side, where she was shot multiple times in the head at point-blank range and thrown into the water. Slaton was found floating in McKelvey Lake at p.
The death-penalty specifications say Slaton was killed while the other crimes were being committed against her and as part of a pattern of conduct in which 2 or more people were killed. An orientation for between 90 and prospective jurors for Jackson's trial is set for Friday. Beginning next Monday, prospective jurors will be interviewed by the lawyers and judge individually and out of earshot of other potential jurors until 12 jurors and 4 alternates are chosen. If the jury convicts Jackson of any of the death specifications, the same jurors will return at a later date to hear testimony concerning what penalty should be imposed and to recommend a life or death sentence.
The defense lawyers are John B. Juhasz and Lynn Maro. Jackson will face another capital jury trial before Judge Durkin later this year in the Nov. Jackson is charged with aggravated murder in that case, in which the victims nude body was found shortly before 4 a. Jackson is charged with the aggravated robbery and kidnapping of the murder victim and of a woman who survived that attack.
The same death specifications that were attached in the Slaton case apply against Jackson in the November case. Besides these cases, the only other capital case pending here is that of Curtis Young, whose jury trial is to begin in April before Judge Maureen A. Young, 25, of Center Street, is charged in the July 31, , shooting deaths of Helen Moore, 29, of Cassius Street, her nearly full-term baby and her 8-year-old son, Ceonei Moore.
