The Daily Globe - Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

By RALPH ANSAMI

ransami@yourdailyglobe.com

HURLEY — Jurors in the Iron County murder trial of Richard Allen and Joseph Lussier will return Monday morning to receive instructions and listen to closing statements before issuing a final verdict.

After five days of the trial, Iron County Judge Patrick Madden excused the 14-person jury for the weekend at 2 p.m. Friday after the defense called only one witness.

Madden said he wouldn’t hold the jury through a late Friday night session.

The state’s case against the two men charged with the execution-type killing of Lac du Flambeau tribal memb...