RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) – Jurors returned to work Sunday for their second day of deliberations in the murder trial of a Long Island electrician charged with killing his lover’s estranged millionaire husband.
Daniel Pelosi, 41, is accused of killing banker Theodore Ammon, who was struck more than 30 times on the head with a blunt object at his mansion on eastern Long Island. He could face 25 years to life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.
On Saturday, the jurors reviewed phone records and reheard the testimony of a key prosecution witness who said Pelosi admitted the slaying to her.
Pelosi claims he was at his sister’s house in Center Moriches, 40 miles from Ammon’s mansion in East Hampton, on the night of the killing in October 2001.
Prosecutors say Pelosi was angry over a proposed divorce settlement presented to Generosa Ammon, the millionaire’s estranged wife and Pelosi’s lover. She married Pelosi three months after her husband was slain; she died of cancer last year.
The defense suggested Generosa Ammon might have been the actual killer.
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