The Latest: Jury released for day in border agent's case
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on a Border Patrol agent's trial in a fatal shooting (all times local):
4:50 p.m.
Jurors in the trial of a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with second-degree murder in the fatal 2012 shooting of a teenager in Mexico have been released for the day after receiving instructions not to discuss the case with anyone and or read or listen to news reports about the proceedings.
The jurors will return to court Tuesday morning to begin deliberations in the case against Agent Lonnie Swartz in the shooting of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who had been throwing rocks into the United States near the international crossing in Nogales, Mexico.
Swartz has pleaded not guilty.