Jury to resume deliberating case Monday

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA

Jurors in Philadelphia resume deliberations Monday on the fate of a 74-year-old man who shot a police officer in 1966 and was charged with murder after the officer’s death in 2007.

William Barnes served 16 years in prison for the attempted murder of Officer Walter Barclay during a botched burglary.

The jury must decide whether the shooting that left the 23-year-old rookie paralyzed from the waist down was the direct cause of his death 41 years later.

Prosecutors said the officer spent 20 percent of the remaining four decades of his life either in a hospital or a nursing home.

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