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Nov 3, 2009 7:18 am US/Eastern

No Verdict Yet In Yarbrough Re-Trial

WASHINGTON, Pa. (KDKA) ― After seven hours of deliberation, the jury in the retrial of Terrell Yarbrough, a man accused of killing two Franciscan University students in 1999, told the judge they wanted to go home.

Deliberations will resume Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Yarbrough, 25, was convicted and sentenced to death in Ohio in the shooting deaths of Brian Muha, 18, and Aaron Land, 20.

The Ohio Supreme Court threw out that sentence, ruling that Yarbrough and co-defendant Nathan Herring should be tried in Pennsylvania for the homicides.

Officials found the bodies of Muha and Land in a wooded area of Washington County.

Both men were students at Franciscan University in 1999 when they were kidnapped from their apartment.

Shortly before noon Monday, both the defense and prosecution rested their cases and the jury received the case just before 5 p.m.

Prosecutor Michael Lucas told the jury that the victims were killed for $200.

"That's all their lives were worth to him," Lucas said while pointing to Yarbrough

The defense did not call any witnesses and said that they made their case during cross-examination of the prosecution's witnesses.

The defense also contends that Herring was the mastermind and shooter.

Earlier in the trial, Yarbrough's defense attorney told the jury that while his client may have done some bad things in connection to the kidnapping and death of Muha and Land, he did not pull the trigger.

In 2006, then-Washington County District Attorney John Pettit said that he would prosecute both Yarbrough and Herring on the homicide charges in Pennsylvania.

He also said that he would seek the death penalty against both men.

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