Juror in photographer’s death trial replaced

? Jurors deciding whether a man wrongly imprisoned for rape later murdered a photographer had to start over Friday after the judge replaced a member of the panel who had a family emergency.

The jury had deliberated for less than five hours before Judge Patrick Willis replaced the juror Thursday night with a woman who had been sequestered with the 12-member panel. No verdict was reached, and the jury was set to come back today.

Jurors were deliberating in the case of Steven Avery, 44, who is accused of luring Teresa Halbach, 25, to his family’s auto salvage yard in Chilton, killing her and burning her body and belongings in the back yard on Halloween 2005. He is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The killing came two years after Avery was released from prison after serving 18 years for a rape that DNA analysis eventually showed another man committed.