Jurors Unable to Reach Verdict on Black Reprobate Charged with Murder of White Woman Over a Decade Ago
WTAE
April 12, 2015
A judge has declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict in the trial of a man charged with having killed a woman found dead in the basement of a vacant Pittsburgh house more than a decade ago.
Forty-two-year-old Michael Molina is charged in the murder of 21-year-old Melissa Snodgrass, who was last seen in September 2003. Her mummified remains were found in March 2004.
Molina was convicted of third-degree murder and sentenced to 20 to 40 years but won a new trial based on a prosecutor’s remarks. Jurors in his retrial said Wednesday that they had been unable to reach unanimous agreement.
No date has been set for a third trial. The defendant’s attorney attacked the credibility of prosecution witnesses, calling his client a “fall guy.”
