After two days and more than 14 hours of deliberating, a jury was deadlocked and a mistrial was declared Monday in the murder trial of Luis Alvarado.

A jury sentenced a San Antonio man to 46 years in prison on Friday for touching an 8-year-old girl inappropriately in 2016.

SAN ANTONIO – A former district judge in Bexar County is returning to the bench. Greg Abbott has appointed Melisa Skinner of San Antonio as judge of the 437th Judicial District Court in Bexar County. She is currently an assistant district attorney for the 38th Judicial District working on US/Mexico smuggling and human trafficking cases as part of the Texas Anti-Gang Task Force. Skinner has previously served as judge of the 144th ad 290th judicial district courts in Bexar County. She also has worked as an assistant criminal district attorney for the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

Joseph Woolard faces a long list of charges, including a murder charge stemming from a wrong-way traffic wreck last spring. Woolard was a fugitive facing attempted capital murder charges stemming from a shootout with police in March 2019. During a pretrial hearing on Friday, 144th District Court Judge Melisa Skinner recused herself since she had been the prosecutor assigned to Woolard’s attempted capital murder case. “I’ve had a lot to do with speaking with the family members in those cases, and so I would absolutely have a conflict,” Judge Skinner said Friday. The case’s future is unclear since Skinner is facing challenger Judge Michael Mery in next month’s election.