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A Birmingham man convicted in Talladega county of six counts
of capital murder could receive the death penalty.
Ten of the 12 Talladega
County jurors voted Thursday in
favor of execution for 33-year-old Ocie Lee Lynch.
The jury convicted Lynch on Wednesday for shooting and
stabbing attorney Robert Blake Lazenby in 2011.
Lazenby died at his home in Sylacauga, in what investigators determined
was a murder for hire case.
Prosecutors said Earnest James Files, Jr., and Calvin McCall
Haynes contacted Lynch to kill Lazenby.
Haynes previously pled guilty to conspiricy to commit murder and is
serving life in prison. Files faces
charges on 10 counts of capital murder.
A grand jury indicted Lynch on eight counts of murder. Jurors convicted him for two counts of murder
for financial gain, two counts of murder pursuant to a contract, and two counts
of murder during a burglary.
Judge John Rochester can decide to accept the jury's
recommendation for capital punishment, or to sentence Lynch to life in prison
without parole. The formal sentencing
has not been set, but Chief Deputy District Attorney Christina Kilgore said it
will likely be in January.
A second suspect accused of being with Lynch in Lazenby's
house at the time of the killing, 24-year-old Charles Andrew Joseph Hendrix of
Birmingham, faces the same charges as Lynch.
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