Hearst's house for sale, just 82m Ian Sample on waterspouts Senator apologises for past sins after his phone number is posted on escort agency website Bush faces down own party as discontent over Iraq deepens Pound hits 26-year high as trade gap narrows Butler pays $66,000 to settle Elvis Presley case NYSE begins inquiry into spike in ABN Amro trading Judge tells deadlocked Black trial jury to think again McCain challenge falters as top aides quit Springfield, Vermont, to host Simpsons premiere Nixon dismissed Watergate as a 'Republican problem' Conrad Black arrives at the courthouse for his fraud trial in Chicago. The American jury hearing Conrad Black's racketeering trial last night revealed that it was deadlocked on "one or more" of the 16 criminal counts facing the former media mogul and his three co-defendants. In spite of pleas from Lord Black's lawyers to accept a partial verdict, Judge Amy St Eve ordered the nine men and three women to go back into the jury room and resume deliberating at Chicago's federal courthouse.
Under American law, nothing less than unanimity on each count is adequate. But if she feels that the jury can go no further, Judge St Eve has the discretion to accept verdicts on those counts which are agreed, while declaring a mistrial on the rest. Black fights to keep $35m Palm Beach mansion 28.
06.2007: Conrad Black case seen on knife edge as jury retires 27.06.
2007: 'Follow the money' to Black's door, jurors told 26.06.2007: Black defence: ignore 'hunches and guesses' 20.
06.2007: Black trial 'based on envy and prejudice', says defence 05.06.
2007: Black's $4.6m makeover for apartment 30.05.
2007: Trial shown video of Black taking boxes 10.05.
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