Jury convicts suspect in Sean Taylor slaying trial

A Florida jury has convicted a man prosecutors called the ringleader of a botched 2007 Miami-area burglary that ended with the fatal shooting of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor. The 12-person jury deliberated nearly four hours Tuesday in Miami before finding 25-year-old Jason Mitchell guilty of first-degree felony murder and armed burglary. Trial testimony indicated that Mitchell hatched the plot for five Fort Myers-area men to burglarize Taylor’s home near Miami after previously seeing large amounts of cash there. The judge immediately imposed the mandatory life sentence for murder, plus 40 more years for the burglary conviction. – Associated Press