Criminal Funeral Case ends in Mistrial
A well known Funeral embezzlement lawsuit ended in a mistrial after 50 hours of Jury deliberation recently. Jurors were simply unable to agree on the charges against the defendant. This a related case to the Clayton Smart preneed embezzlement.
In this case the jury did not give a verdict, thus a mistrial.
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“A mistrial was declared Monday in the case against Mark Singer after nine days of jury deliberations failed to produce a verdict.
At about midday, jurors reported that they were unable to agree on the counts against Singer, and Criminal Court Judge W. Otis Higgs Jr. declared a mistrial, prosecutor Bill Bright said.
Bright said prosecutors want to put the case, involving the Forest Hill funeral businesses, before another jury. June 30 has been set for lawyers to report back to the court.
Singer is one of three men accused in Tennessee of stealing millions of dollars from trust funds used to back prepaid funerals and cemetery maintenance at the Forest Hill funeral businesses. He was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit theft of property over $60,000, one count of theft of property over $60,000 and five counts of money laundering.
Jurors received the case on May 12 and had deliberated more than 50 hours over nine days.
During a 23-day trial, they heard complex testimony about finances as well as emotional accounts from victims in the case.
More than 13,000 people saw most of the value of their prepaid funeral policies temporarily wiped out after Forest Hill Funeral Home owner Clayton Smart declared in 2006 that the businesses would not honor the contracts in full.”
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