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Jury declines death sentence in killing at veterinary clinic

By Ashley Harding - News4Jax and Marilyn Parker - News4Jax
Published on February 23, 2023 at 12:11 pm
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A Clay County jury declined Wednesday to recommend the death penalty for a man who raped, stabbed and strangled veterinary technician Andrea Boyer before beating her to death with a fire extinguisher in 2007.

Michael Renard Jackson, 53, was sentenced to death in 2010 in the same case, but the Florida Supreme Court threw out the conviction after finding that Clay County deputies had made prejudicial comments on the witness stand.

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The jury in 2010 took just 20 minutes to recommend death for Jackson, but the vote was 9-3. This time, under newer Florida law, the vote for death had to be unanimous.

Read the rest of this story at News4Jax, a Jacksonville Today news partner.

author image Ashley Harding joined the Channel 4 news team in March 2013. She anchors the weekend edition of The Morning Show and reports three days a week. author image Marilyn joined the News4Jax team in February 2020. Marilyn’s career as a broadcast journalist started at WALB in Albany, Georgia. She is a graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication.

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