The jury’s partial verdict capped more than three days of deliberations in the trial of Kevin Mak, 43, who was charged in the killing of a homeless man two years ago.
OAKLAND — An Alameda County jury acquitted a man of second-degree murder Tuesday, yet found itself deadlocked on lesser charges in a killing that was
Dressed in a dark grey suit, Mak bowed his face into his hands as Alameda County Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon declared a mistrial on the manslaughter charge. Mak hugged his attorney, Neil Hallinan, after the jury left the courtroom. Prosecutors claimed Mak tried “turning his 1,000-pound car into a weapon” during a confrontation over busted security cameras, which had been knocked down with a shovel from a nearby building that Mak had been renting. Unsatisfied with the response by Oakland police to the vandalism, Mak and a friend tracked down Leung and blamed him for the vandalism, prosecutor Alyssa Fielding told the jury at trial.
Moments later, Leung ran down the street toward his black pickup, while Mak and his friend got back in the vehicle and followed behind him, parking right behind the truck, surveillance footage showed. “He was subject to blind spots, he was subject to poor visibility,” Hallinan said. “This happened so quickly.”
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