Deliberations continue Wednesday in the Emmanuel Lopes trial. The judge gave the jurors the day off Tuesday but on Monday, they told the judge they couldn’t reach a verdict. This is the second time Lopes has been on trial for the murder of a Weymouth police officer and bystander back in 2018. A judge declared a mistrial last July. 

After a mistrial was declared when a jury could not reach a verdict last year, Emmanuel Lopes is again standing trial for the 2018 murders of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams.

Prosecutors allege Emmanuel Lopes, during a struggle, took Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna’s gun and shot him eight times in the chest and head. He’s then accused of shooting 77-year-old Vera Adams, who was nearby in her home’s sunroom.

The case of a man accused of killing a police officer and a 77-year-old bystander in Weymouth, Massachusetts, back in 2018 returns to the courtroom. After a previous mistrial, the new trial of Emmanuel Lopes is set to begin Wednesday. The mistrial happened less than a year ago. Now both Lopes and prosecutors are returning to make their cases again….

Jury selection began Monday in the retrial of a man accused of killing a police sergeant and a bystander in Weymouth, Massachusetts, back in 2018. In July, a judge declared a mistrial in the case against Emmanuel Lopes after a jury was unable to reach a unaninimous decision after three weeks of testimony and days of deliberation. Lopes is facing…

A new trial date has been set for the man accused of killing a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, after a mistrial was declared in the case earlier this month. Emmanuel Lopes, accused of killing Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams in 2018, went on trial in Norfolk Superior Court earlier this summer….

The lawyer for a man charged with killing a Massachusetts police officer and an innocent bystander has requested his client undergo a psychiatric evaluation. The Patriot Ledger reports that an attorney for 21-year-old Emmanuel Lopes appeared in court Tuesday to ask that Lopes be moved to Bridgewater State Hospital, a state psychiatric prison. He is currently in the Norfolk County...