Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Conrad Black's Jury Deadlocked

But, the judge has sent the jurors back for more deliberations.

Judge Amy St. Eve of the U.S. District Court repeated a section of her original jury instructions. The jury of 12 men and women were handed the case on June 27 after nearly 15 weeks of testimony.S. District Court repeated a section of her original jury instructions.

The National Post has more:

"We have discussed and deliberated on all the evidence and are still unable to reach a unanimous verdict on one or more counts," the jury said in a note read by Judge Amy St. Eve. The note went on to say that they had read the jury instructions carefully.

Judge St. Eve decided not to accept a partial verdict at this time.
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The jury is its ninth day of deliberations on the fate of Lord Black and three co-defendants, all former executives with Hollinger International Inc. They face a combined total of 42 counts, mainly wire, mail and tax fraud.

His royal lordness isn't walking away from all of this quite yet. I say stick him in the castle tower and throw away the key.
 

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