Deadlocked Stanford fraud trial jury told to keep deliberating

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/06/2678180/deadlocked-stanford-fraud-trial.html
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The judge in R. Allen Stanford’s fraud trial ordered the jury to return to deliberations after the panel sent a note saying it couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in its fourth day of reviewing the evidence.

The eight men and four women on the jury told U.S. District Judge David Hittner in Houston yesterday they were “unable to reach a verdict on each of the 14 counts,” the judge said, reading their note to attorneys for both sides.

Hittner instructed jurors to “continue your deliberations in this case,” telling them the trial has been costly in terms of both time and money, that the lawyers were unlikely going to be able to put on a better trial and that another jury was unlikely to be more conscientious.

“It is your duty to agree upon a verdict if you can do so, without surrendering your conscientious opinion,’” Hittner told them.

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