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Bartow Slaying Scene Photos Shown In Death Penalty Trail
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Published: February 25, 2009
Jermaine Michael Julian
TAMPA - Jurors in a federal death penalty trial viewed photographs this morning of the scene of an execution-style slaying in a Bartow drug house in October 2006.
Carlton Potts, 22, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, said Chief Medical Examiner Stephen J. Nelson, who testified in the trial of Jermaine Michael Julian.
Jurors were shown a video and photographs depicting the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard house where Potts was killed. Inside were wads of cash, drugs, ammunition, spent bullets, blood and guns.
The prosecution says Julian killed Potts during a robbery of the drug house, and that he tried to kill others, but failed when his gun jammed.
The defense maintains the evidence is not as it appears and that the government will not be able to prove its case.
This is the first federal death penalty trial in Tampa that officials can remember.
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