DALLAS — The Denton County district attorney’s office said Tuesday that prosecutors will retry former Texas Rangers pitcher John Wetteland’s sexual abuse case, which ended in a mistrial last week.
A relative accused Wetteland, 56, of forcing him to perform a sex act on him three times between 2004 and 2006, beginning when the child was 4 years old. The accuser said the abuse happened in the master bathroom shower of Wetteland’s home in Bartonville, about 10 miles south of Denton.
A jury of nine men and three women deliberated inside the Denton County courthouse for nearly eight hours Friday. Jurors deadlocked 10-2 and a state district judge declared a mistrial. Wetteland’s lawyer, Derek Adame, said most jurors wanted to find his client not guilty.
