SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Two jurors in the trial of a Utah doctor accused of killing his ex-wife said Friday the panel made quick work of a key question in the case: whether the woman’s death was a murder at all.
Foreman Cameron Sharp said he and other jurors were swayed by the largely circumstantial case and quickly dismissed the defense theory that John Brickman Wall’s ex-wife killed herself.
Some of the most convincing elements were a blood-spatter expert’s testimony and the Salt Lake City pediatrician’s inability to account for his whereabouts the night of Uta von Schwedler’s death, Sharp said.
“It was easy for me to come to the conclusion it was a homicide based on the evidence,” Sharp, a 38-year-old real estate investor, told The Associated Press.
Wall was convicted of murder Thursday after prosecutors argued he dosed von Schwedler, 49, with the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and drowned her in her bathtub in 2011.