The 12-person jury that heard five weeks of testimony in the murder trial of Paige Birgfelds accused killer might have been hung, but its members were all in agreement on one thing the evidence, as it was, pointed at Lester Ralph Jones and at no one else.
Nobody on the jury thought Jones was innocent of wrongdoing in the 2007 disappearance and death of Birgfeld, a Grand Junction soccer mom by day who moonlighted as an escort, according to five jurors who agreed to speak publicly to the media Friday, after Mesa County District Court Judge Brian Flynn officially declared a mistrial in the case because of the jurys inability to reach a unanimous verdict.
By no means does anybody really think that he didnt do this
, said juror Bobbi, who herself was one of three jurors in favor of acquitting Jones. Its the fact that there was not enough evidence for them to get past the reasonable doubt.
(The prosecution) didnt prove it.
Jurors commented on several aspects of the trial, including what evidence they found compelling like phone records or not credible like testimony from self-confessed former drug users.
