Brunswick jury convicts in double murder trial

A jury in Brunswick late yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of guilty against Stacey Humphreys, convicting him of the 2003 murders of two Cobb County real estate agents. The jury of ten women and two men needed about four-and-a-half hours in deliberations to reach the verdict. Jurors will begin the sentencing phase of the trial today. Humphreys faces the death penalty in the killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams, and 21-year-old Lori Brown.

Juror bounced from Brunswick murder trial

Only a couple of days into the double-murder trial of Stacey Ian Humphreys in Brunswick, a juror has been dismissed.

Authorities say one of three men on the jury flashed a thumbs-up sign to deputies as they were escorting the defendant. Typically, jurors are prevented from seeing defendants bound in handcuffs or chains because it might create the presumption of guilt.

Humphreys faces the death penalty if convicted of the murders of two real estate agents in Cobb County in 2003. The trial is in Brunswick because of pre-trial publicity in the metro-Atlanta area.

Death penalty trial opens in Brunswick

Opening statements are set for this morning in Brunswick, in the death penalty trial of Stacey Ian Humpherys. He is charged in the 2003 murders of two Cobb County real estate agents. Lori Brown and Cyndi Williams were allegedly shot and killed by Humpherys in the model home sales office where they worked. The trial has been moved to the Georgia coast because of pre-trial publicity.