When he was young, he worked at Blue Lakes Farm and at the Sunoco gas station in Newbury by Kiwanis Lake. Larry was originally from Cleveland but his family moved to the country when he was younger and he attended Newbury School. Larry is once again reunited with his loving wife of 55 years, Beverly Durkee, who passed away July 19th, 2020. He was born in Cleveland, OH on October 15th, 1943 to the late Horace Ray and Muriel Ella (Wass) Durkee. Gasser’s defense team insisted he fired at McKnight in self-defense.Lawrence “Larry” Ronald Durkee, 79, of Newbury, OH, passed away peacefully early Tuesday morning, December 27th, 2022 at UH-Geauga Medical Center. Witnesses at the 2018 trial said McKnight had been weaving in and out of traffic at high speed before the shooting - one prosecutor acknowledged to the jury that he was “driving like a jerk.” But prosecutors argued that Gasser escalated the conflict, following McKnight down an exit that he would not ordinarily have taken. 1, 2016, after what authorities described as a rolling a 5-mile (8-kilometer) traffic dispute and chase over a New Orleans area bridge. McKnight was a high school football hero at Louisiana’s John Curtis Christian School who played three seasons for the New York Jets and one with the Kansas City Chiefs. We hope that the state doesn’t waste any more time and money to appeal this any further.” The murder scene on Dec. “We are glad that both the district judge and appellate court agreed. Gasser for murder a second time after his prior acquittal on that charge,” Gasser’s attorney, Dane Ciolino, wrote in an email Thursday night. “It seemed fairly obvious to us that the Double Jeopardy clause prevented the state from trying Mr. The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office declined comment on Thursday. “To vacate a jury verdict convicting a defendant because it was a non-unanimous jury verdict then uphold the implied acquittal of a defendant resulting from the same non-unanimous jury verdict is rationally irreconcilable,” he wrote. “Therefore, when the jury returned a ten to two verdict of guilty of manslaughter, it served as a valid acquittal of the second degree murder charge, precluding retrial of defendant for second degree murder based on the principles of double jeopardy.” “At the time of defendant’s trial in the present case, a unanimous verdict was not required by Louisiana law in order to acquit a defendant,” Judge Hans Liljeberg wrote in an opinion joined by Judge Robert Chaisson. On Thursday, the state 5th Circuit Court of Appeal agreed in a 2-1 panel ruling. But state District Judge Ellen Shirer Kovach ruled in February that trying Gasser for murder again would violate his constitutional protection against double jeopardy. Prosecutors wanted another chance at seeking a murder conviction. It was thrown out, along with Gasser’s 30-year prison term, and a new trial was ordered after the Supreme Court ruled non-unanimous verdicts unconstitutional. The jury came back with a lesser manslaughter conviction. McKnight played the first three seasons of his career with the Jets from 2010-’12. NEW ORLEANS - The man who killed former NFL player Joe McKnight cannot be tried again on a murder charge, now that his conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter has been overturned, a Louisiana appeal court ruled Thursday.Īuthorities in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson Parish originally charged Ronald Gasser with second-degree murder in the road rage shooting of McKnight, a standout high school football player in Louisiana who later played in the NFL. Packers have trade package ready with the Jets for Aaron Rodgers Predicting where The Post’s top 30 NFL free agents will sign Jets’ entire offseason waiting on Aaron Rodgers’ decision Aaron Rodgers close to making Jets decision: ‘It won’t be long’
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