A deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial Saturday for an Augusta woman accused of killing her former boyfriend in 2015.
A jury of 10 women and two men watched the entirety of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office interrogation of Jasmine Green, who was 19, during the trial last week.
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Green’s defense attorney, Jacque Hawk, argued her confession, made at the end of an eight-hour interrogation, was forced.
Green was accused of killing former lover Davyn Dixon, 24, by luring him with text messages outside his Hephzibah home two days before Thanksgiving in 2015. He was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Green has been out on bond since 2019. Her case has been delayed due to the pandemic, the election of a new district attorney, the split of Columbia County from the Augusta Judicial Circuit and other factors since then.
Former Augusta Circuit DA Natalie Paine, now chief Columbia County Circuit assistant DA, prosecuted the case.
Augusta DA Jared Williams recused himself from the case and numerous others handled by his former employer, the Hawk Law Group, and it was reassigned to the Columbia County circuit.
