Oxley Trial Juror Remains Bothered By Dad's Recliner

CANTON — A juror in the murder trial of Wayne T. Oxley Jr. told the court she was still bothered when she looks at her father's recliner because it resembles the chair where Bernard A. Trickey Jr. was found.

Last week the juror said she had a dream of Oxley chasing her around her family's barn with a baseball bat. Despite requests from Oxley's attorney, Peter A. Dumas, Malone, Judge Jerome J. Richards kept the juror seated.

Before witness testimony began Monday afternoon, the juror said she will have future transportation issues getting to court because her husband will be working in Watertown and they have only one car. She asked to be released from her duty as a juror, but Judge Richards denied her request.

The juror also said she had not had any more nightmares.

"I don't think he wants to throw her off," said Oxley, who disagrees with Judge Richards's decision.

Outside the jury's presence, Judge Richards also told two reporters covering the trial not to discuss witness testimony inside the courtroom. Judge Richards said the reporters were heard by court officials speaking at a level jurors could hear.

Gary W. Miles, a defense attorney who was acting district attorney when Mr. Trickey was murdered, testified that Oxley appeared cocky and fidgety the morning after the murder.

Oxley, Ogdensburg, is accused of beating his neighbor Mr. Trickey to death with a wooden baseball bat in August 2005.

He was convicted of second-degree murder, but an appellate court sent the case back for a retrial. A second trial ended with a hung jury.

District Attorney Nicole M. Duvé will continue questioning Harry J. McCarthy, who was a detective in Ogdensburg Police Department in 2005, this morning.