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Texas Murder Defendant Missing As Jury Returns Guilty Verdict
A manhunt was underway Tuesday evening in Texas for a murder defendant who failed to show up for court as a jury returned a guilty verdict earlier in the day.
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(July 1, 2008)--Authorities in South Texas were searching Tuesday evening for a man who failed to show up in court while a jury was convicting him of murder.
A Hidalgo County prosecutor said Tuesday that 24-year Oscar Davila Rodriguez, of Mission, is considered a fugitive.
A jury convicted Rodriguez of murder on Tuesday, but he was not in court to hear the verdict read.
Prosecutor Michelle Puig said that until Tuesday, Rodriguez had shown up each day for court.
He had been free on bond since last year, when a judge threw out his first murder conviction because a witness testified about a polygraph test that was supposed to have been barred from evidence.
The trial was in Edinburg, which is about 15 miles from the Texas-Mexico border.
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Let's hope he runs into a Mr.Horn!!!!
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What were they thinking!? What did they expect? Did they actually think he would accept a guilty verdict like a good little boy? HOW STUPID!!!!
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OH how comforting!! If they were gonna let him out on bail then he should have at least had an ankle band, the kind they use for house arrest! STUPID!
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