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Mistrial called in Shooting Case
A mistrial was declared early Friday in the attempted murder trial of Gregory Robinson, 22, who allegedly shot and wounded a man at a Fitchburg apartment in May 2004. Jurors informed Dane County Circuit Judge Stuart Schwartz at about 2 a.m. following 12 hours of deliberations that they were hopelessly deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict. Robinson was accused of shooting and seriously wounding Delon Waller, 27, outside an apartment on Red Arrow Trail. Waller was shot through the back and in the buttocks but recovered from his wounds. He testified at the trial that he was trying to get into the building to visit a friend but his friend never answered the doorbell. Waller said Robinson, whom he had never seen before, approached and stood close behind him as he was ringing the bell and when he began to walk away he was suddenly shot in the back and turned to see Robinson holding a gun. No reason was ever given for the shooting. The defense attacked Waller's identification of Robinson as the shooter, calling Wright State University psychology professor Solomon Fulero to the stand to generally attack the reliability of eyewitnesses to traumatic events. Although early in the trial it appeared defense attorney David Karpe would put Robinson on the stand, Robinson did not testify.
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