Judge Margaret Van Houten ruled Friday that retrying Jackson-Bolanos on the felony murder charge would constitute double jeopardy, violating his Fifth Amendment rights.
35-year-old Orit Oged and her 36-year-old husband Corey Spurlock are also accused of distributing about 1,000 kilograms of marijuana.
The jury remains deadlocked on charges of felony murder and home invasion, and found the defendant Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 29, guilty of lying to the police.
The suspect, Sigal Yana Izkovitch, is a 33-year-old resident of Herzliya and is the mother of the victim.
There were signs of violence on the body, the police added.
The Truth is a twisty crime dreama inspired by the murder of teenager Tair Rada in Katzrin in 2006, for which Roman Zadorov spent over 10 years in prison before being acquitted.
Jury deliberations are set to begin in the Samantha Woll murder trial, nearly nine months after the Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed to death outside her home.
Officers had discovered the three victims, aged 25, 28, and 61, with serious injuries at the house in Bushey, a leafy town 20 miles northwest of London, on Tuesday evening. They died at the scene.
Former Philippine police officers implicated in the murder of Isaac Cohen and Geneva Lopez over a land dispute, highlighting corruption and violence in agricultural land transactions.
Pereg was serving a life sentence after being convicted for the murder of his mother and aunt.
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