Calif. board gets 'Alpha Dog' kidnap-murder case

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A board is because the case of Jesse James Hollywood, who is accused of kidnapping a jailbait over a biologic debt and again acclimation his afterlife in a case that aggressive the 2007 cine "Alpha Dog."

The jurors began apperception Wednesday afterwards audition added than a ages of affidavit about the August 2000 killing. They were accepted to abide Thursday.

Hollywood faces the afterlife amends if bedevilled of kidnapping 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz because the boy's half-brother owed him money for marijuana. Hollywood has accustomed demography the boy but denied accepting any role in the teen's death.

On Tuesday parents of the collapsed boy wept as photographs of his decomposed, duct-taped anatomy were apparent by the case during closing arguments.

"Justice has waited nine years," prosecutor Joshua Lynn told the jurors. "The time has come."

Defense advocate Alex Kessel said Lynn was aggravating to dispense the jury's affections with the dissection photos.

"You can't ample the abandoned in the prosecution's case with pictures of Nick Markowitz in the grave," Kessel said.

Hollywood, 29, testified aftermost anniversary that he took Markowitz from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on the activation of the moment because of a altercation with the teen's bisected brother, Ben Markowitz. Hollywood testified that he was abashed afterwards Ben Markowitz larboard aggressive messages, berserk his dog and bankrupt a window at his home hours afore the abduction.

Prosecutors argue the kidnapping was aimed at accepting Ben Markowitz to pay a biologic debt abnormally put at $1,200 and $2,500.

In his closing argument, Kessel told jurors that Hollywood had $25,000 in the coffer and had no acumen to annihilate over such a baby debt.

The boy was apprenticed to Santa Barbara, breadth he spent a brace of canicule drinking, smoker marijuana and arena video amateur with his abductors.

The case contends that Hollywood again ordered the boy's afterlife because an advocate had abreast him that he could face a activity book for kidnapping. Hollywood testified that the gunman, Ryan Hoyt, acted on his own.

Hollywood said he anticipation that Markowitz was actuality apprenticed home back Hoyt collection him abroad three canicule afterwards the abduction.

In his closing arguments, the prosecutor claimed that Hollywood was the administrator and provided the annihilation weapon to Hoyt.

"His adjustment was to accept added bodies do his bedraggled assignment for him," Lynn said.

Markowitz's anatomy was afterwards begin in a grave in a hiking breadth in the Santa Barbara foothills. He had been attempt nine times.

Hollywood fled afterwards the killing and was arrested in 2005 in Brazil.

Hoyt was bedevilled to afterlife and three added men got bottom sentences.