Man convicted in Sean Taylor murder

June 11, 2014
Zaina Kahuk
News Writer
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A Florida jury has convicted a man prosecutors called the ringleader of a botched 2007 Miami-area burglary that ended with the shooting of Washington Redskins star, Sean Taylor. Twenty-five year old Jason Mitchell was found guilty of first-degree murder and burglary after a 12 person jury deliberated for hours on Tuesday. Mitchell was the one who allegedly come up with the idea for five Fort Myers-area men to burglarize Taylor’s home near Miami after previously seeing large amounts of cash there. Eric Rivera Jr, the man who shot Taylor, was convicted last fall on second-degree murder charges and sentenced to 57 years. The other men involved still await trial.