By Randall Beach Register Staff rbeach@nhregister.com NEW HAVEN -- The 12 jurors considering life or death sentences for Steven J. Hayes in the Cheshire triple homicide were unable to reach a verdict Friday, and the foreman's notes to the judge indicated they are divided in their votes.
HARRISBURG -- The Dauphin County jury deciding the fate of ex- Rep. Mike Veon and three co-defendants asked to be dimissed at 4:45 p.m. today -- 15 minutes earlier than usual -- making it likely deliberations will continue for a sixth day Friday. The jury began considering the charges at 8 a.m. today, a day after a juror told the judge they are turning on each other as they consider the corruption charges.
Jurors in the cold-case murder trial of Stephen Scharf completed their first day of deliberations on Wednesday without reaching a verdict. Bergen County prosecutors say Scharf, 60, killed his wife, Jody Ann, by pushing her off a cliff in Englewood Cliffs on Sept. 20, 1992, less than two weeks after she filed for divorce.
The former owners of a lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo. are on the hook for $320 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit alleging that emissions harmed area children. A St. Louis jury issued the verdict after two hours of deliberation July 29. The day before that, jurors awarded $38.5 million in compensatory damages to the plaintiffs, 16 young adults and children who lived near the smelter.
Jurors in the Phil Spector murder trial in Los Angeles ended their ninth day of deliberation Friday without a verdict despite being given new instructions designed to break a 7-5 deadlock. The jury of nine men and three women told the court Tuesday morning that they were deadlocked. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler, prosecutors and the defense team then needed parts of three days to craft new language and instructions. The judge also withdrew one instruction that the jurors said gave them problems.
Falls man acquitted of two drug felonies LOCKPORT -- On its third day of deliberation Thursday, a Niagara County Court jury acquitted a Niagara Falls man of two drug felonies, convicting him only of a marijuana violation.
The man charged in the killing of a High Desert couple at an abandoned military bunker in 2008 has been found to be mentally competent to stand trial. Jurors returned the verdict Wednesday in the trial for Collin Lee McGlaughlin of West Covina after receiving the case for deliberation a day earlier, in Victorville Superior Court, according to court records.
VATICAN CITY For a single, bewildering moment, pilgrims in St. Peter's Square thought there was a new pope. Even for the radio voice of the Vatican, the first wisps of smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney appeared white the sign that the College of Cardinals had reached a decision. It seems white ... no, no, it's black!" reported Vatican Radio at dusk Monday, just hours after the cardinals began the historic conclave to pick the successor to John Paul II.
A Baltimore jury has awarded $170,000 to a city man who claimed two police officers arrested him in September 2009 without cause and then punched him several times in the face while he was lying on his back in handcuffs. The verdict came Wednesday evening after about an hour of deliberation at the end of a two-day trial in Baltimore City Circuit Court and represents the latest high-dollar result in a case alleging misconduct by city police.
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