After nearly four days of deliberation, a jury of eight women and four men on Thursday found former Republican state Sen. Gilbert Baker innocent on one count of conspiracy to commit bribery involving a former circuit judge.
Jurors in the bribery trial of Gilbert Baker enter their fourth day of deliberations this morning after asking Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. for another day to consider the charges against the Republican former state senator.
In an effort Tuesday afternoon to avoid a possible hung jury in the bribery trial of former Republican state Sen. Gilbert Baker, Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. took the unusual step of instructing the jury to get a good night's sleep and return to court this morning. The move is known as an "Allen Charge."
clive still felt the government s case was a sham, as illustrated by the additional murder they tried to pin on smitty. 9 government said through carl hawley that smitty had committed another murder and his getaway driver was another outlaw called junkyard. well, i say to smitty, who s this junkyard? and smitty laughs and says that s the outlaws dog. and it was just a farce. after nearly two months of trial smitty s jury was deadlocked. typically, this would have resulted in a mistrial and smitty going free. but the judge then gives the the jury an instruction, called an allen charge, which is basically you really need to reach an agreement if you can. it s a dreadful thing. it s just basically coercing jurors. faced with pressure to reach a verdict, the jury reached a decision in just two hours. when the verdict comes back