Judge rejects deadlock, sends Black jury back
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The jury weighing fraud charges against former Hollinger International Inc. chairman Conrad Black and three codefendants resumed deliberations under orders from the trial judge after deadlocking on some charges.
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The jury in the racketeering and fraud trial of fallen media tycoon Conrad Black sent a note to the judge Tuesday saying they are unable to reach a verdict and asking for advice.
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A mistrial was declared Wednesday in the murder case against Phil Spector when the jury reported that it was deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting the music producer of killing actress Lana Clarkson more than four years ago. The prosecutor's office announced it would seek to retry Spector, and the family of the actress also pledged to press on.
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The court reinstated a death sentence for a rapist and murderer whose appeal over the exclusion of a juror had succeeded in lower courts.
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The judge in the Scott Peterson trial Monday rejected a defence request to move the case to another community and pick a whole new jury to decide whether Peterson should get the death penalty for killing his pregnant wife.
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.
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A Mass. judge has taken the highly unusual step of summoning an entire jury back to court next week to testify publicly about whether racism infected the deliberations of a year-old homicide case
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Jurors tried to avoid recommending the death penalty for a man who pleaded guilty to killing the daughter of blues guitarist Elvin Bishop and four others but could not, the jury's foreman said.
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The judge in the Scott Peterson trial Monday rejected a defense request to move the case to another community and pick a whole new jury to decide whether Peterson should get the death penalty for killing his pregnant wife.
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A Howard County judge yesterday rejected an effort to delay Rouse Co. shareholders from voting on whether the company should sell itself to a Chicago mall developer.
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A federal judge threw out the conviction of Kevin A. Howard, citing a ruling in a similar case in which the juryâs verdict was vacated.
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Jury deadlocked on 'one or more' of the 16 criminal counts facing the fallen media mogul.
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The judge in the Scott Peterson murder trial dismissed a juror Tuesday and replaced her with an alternate  --  a sign of conflict in the jury room on the fifth day of deliberations.
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Los Angeles judge may instruct jury to go back and try to reach verdict on a reduced charge of manslaughter.
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The judge presiding over Conrad Black&#39;s  criminal fraud trial refused a request from his lawyers on  Wednesday to bring back to the stand and try to further  discredit the star witness against the former media baron.
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Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Joseph Manck has rejected a challenge to Maryland's electronic voting system.
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A jury considering the case of a millionaire architect accused of murdering his wife is discharged after failing to reach a  verdict.