NO BREAKS EDITION: Who Killed Karter - GA v. Kianna Davis - Day 4 (Mistrial)

The jury asked to see the evidence again. Twice. Then it told the judge what nobody in that courtroom wanted to hear. This is the full deliberations day in the murder trial of Kianna Davis, every minute of court with the recesses stripped out. Karter Ambrose was two years old. He was beaten to death over a weekend in November 2020, and two adults were with him in the window when it happened: his mother, Kianna Davis, who is the defendant, and Kiyon Benton, who is charged separately and is being tried on his own. Davis was not indicted until October 2023, almost three years later. She has pleaded not guilty, she is presumed innocent, and the whole burden rests on the State to prove Who Killed Karter. By Day 4 the case was in the jury's hands. What follows is a jury working, and struggling. It sent a note asking to re-watch the apartment body camera. It came back and reported it was deadlocked on all seven counts, and the judge read it an Allen charge and sent it back to try again. It asked to re-watch Kianna Davis's first police interview. And after all of that, it told the court it could not reach a verdict on any count. Judge Katherine Lumsden declared a mistrial. Nothing was decided. No count reached the twelve votes Georgia requires, in either direction, and the case is unresolved. The State can retry it, and the first opening on the calendar is in November. One ruling shapes how you should read the rest. The judge put on the record that she gave both sides the numerical count on each charge, but she sealed which way any count leans, citing Smith v. State and Sears. So a hung jury here points nowhere. The numbers never left that courtroom, and neither does any lean. WITNESS AND HEARING GUIDE 0:00:00 - The jury's first request of the day. Its note asks to re-watch the apartment body camera, and the court replays State's Exhibit 14, the footage the jurors already saw at trial. 0:33:50 - The jury reports it is deadlocked on all seven counts. Judge Lumsden takes the numerical count on each charge, without which way it leans, then delivers an Allen charge and sends the jury back to keep working. 0:54:30 - Back from the lunch break, the foreperson hands over a new note. This time the jury wants to re-watch Kianna Davis's first police interview. 0:57:52 - The direction ruling. The judge states on the record that she shared the numerical split on each count but sealed which way any of them leans, relying on Smith v. State and Sears. The numbers exist. The direction stays in the room. 0:59:12 - The court replays Kianna Davis's first police interview in full, State's Exhibit 62, her own account of that weekend, the same recording the jury heard during the trial. 1:54:46 - The end of the trial, for now. The jury reports it cannot reach a verdict. The defense moves for a mistrial, the State agrees, and Judge Lumsden declares a mistrial on all seven counts. The jury is discharged, and the court turns to whether the State will put Kianna Davis on trial again, with the first date available in November. COMPLETE CASE COVERAGE justiceisaprocess.com SUBSCRIBE for daily trial coverage and hit the notification bell so you never miss testimony. JOIN to unlock the Case Notebook powered by NotebookLM, where you can chat with the evidence, ask questions about the testimony, and go deeper than any comment section allows. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/ga-... Complete case overview: the charges, the timeline, the two-defendant question, and the legal analysis behind State of Georgia v. Kianna Davis. PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/cov... Full Trial Live Broadcasts:    • Georgia v. Kianna Davis — Full Trial Live ...   No Breaks Edition:    • Georgia v. Kianna Davis — No Breaks Edition   Trial Analysis Podcast:    • Georgia v. Kianna Davis — Trial Case Story...   Key Moments and Testimony:    • Georgia v. Kianna Davis — Key Moments & Te...   Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #WhoKilledKarter #KiannaDavis