Overview
- Jurors began deliberations after closing arguments and worked for nearly four hours before planning to continue.
- Prosecutors say an armed assailant robbed a Shoppers World store on December 27, 1989, then forced two women into separate rooms and raped them at gunpoint.
- The state says modern forensic testing tied Gale to DNA collected during the original investigation, crediting a victim who saved key material after the attack.
- The defense argues the scene held no fingerprints and no trace DNA on the survivors where they say it should have been, noting witnesses said the attacker wore no mask or gloves.
- Gale has pleaded not guilty to rape, kidnapping, and armed robbery, and his lawyer told jurors that aliases and a police pursuit at his arrest do not prove these crimes.