Mark Kaylor
Candido Medina-ResendizA former Red Bank police officer accused of using excessive force in the arrest of a Latino man could walk free after a “hopelessly deadlocked” jury led to a mistrial Friday.
Hamilton County jurors unanimously agreed to acquit Mark Kaylor of aggravated assault, one of three charges he faced after the violent April 2014 arrest of 26-year-old Candido Medina-Resendiz. What they couldn’t decide was whether to convict Kaylor, 40, of a lesser charge – in this case, reckless aggravated assault. Beginning Thursday afternoon, jurors spent 11 hours in disagreement, they told Criminal Court Judge Tom Greenholtz.
“Does every member of the jury agree that further deliberations would not be productive?” Greenholtz asked jurors around 2 p.m. Friday.
Every hand went up.
And then, to avoid wasting further resources or risk coercing somebody into a verdict, Greenholtz declared a mistrial.