By Andy Furillo
afurillo@sacbee.com
Separate Sacramento Superior Court juries have convicted two defendants of first-degree murder but could not reach a verdict on a third accused killer in the stabbing death of a 23-year-old man last year in Boulevard Park.
The third and final panel told Judge Steve White it was hung up today in its deliberations on Nadine Klein, 21.
They said they were split 9-3 in favor of guilt in the death of Jim Arthur, 23, who prosecutors said suffered 140 stab wounds in the June 3 attack inside his mother's house on 22nd Street.
White declared a mistrial and ordered Klein to return for a retrial on Sept. 16.
Two other juries returned the convictions against Johnathan Allan Baker, 22, and Jeremy Ackerman, 21. Baker, who was convicted May 11, will be sentenced June 4. Ackerman's jury convicted him on Friday. He will be sentenced July 1.
According to evidence at trial, Ackerman and Klein met Arthur and smoked methamphetamine with him. Prosecutors said those two and Baker then planned to rob Arthur's mother's house.
Ackerman told police that during the course of the robbery, Baker began the knife assault on Arthur "because he was gay." Ackerman also said in his interview with detectives that he also stabbed the victim during the attack.
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