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Jury In Double Murder Still Deliberating

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — A jury was still deliberating Wednesday evening in the case of a twin accused of murder. Dante Hall is accused of shooting two men during a Eustis house party in 2006. His twin brother with a similar name, Donte, is already on death row for the crime.

The jury was debating the case all day. Jurors began deliberating around 8:30am and there was still no verdict by early evening. That may be good news for defense attorneys, because their client's brother was convicted by another jury in short order.

However, the jurors in Dante Hall's case appear to be struggling with a verdict.

Dante and Donte Hall are almost identical in every way, but by late Wednesday afternoon it was still unclear if the twins would suffer the same fate. Dante is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, the same charges that put his twin brother on death row.

"They've been in there so long, you don't know what's going to happen. Whatever happens, you pray that justice is served," the victim's mother, Mary Evans, said.

Evans' son, Kison Evans, was one of two men killed when a group of armed robbers crashed a Eustis house party on September 9, 2006. Dante is now charged in the death of both Kison Evans and Anthony Blunt. They were shot and killed during the heist.

Prosecutors said it was Donte's girlfriend, Angel Glenn, who helped her boyfriend pull off the crime. She was working as a stripper at the ill-fated party. She first implicated her boyfriend, Donte, as one of the hold-up men, and later his twin Dante as well.

"When the gunmen came in, the scene was chaos," defense attorney Michael Graves said in court.

The families of Anthony Blunt and Kison Evans say, despite Dante Hall's story that he was gambling and selling drugs at the time of the Eustis robbery, they believe he played a role in the deadly heist.

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