Frances Alley & Rick James: A Secret Revealed?

The jury of 10 men and two women hung on eight counts of torture, assault and false imprisonment, most of which involved frances alley, a woman who prosecutors said. James was facing life. James, 45, pleaded no contest to tying frances alley to a chair in july 1991 and torturing her with a cocaine pipe, a knife and cigarette lighters at his hollywood hills home. James was tried for two separate incidents, and the testimony in both cases was damning: