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legal experts say it s unclear whether the jury is focusing on mellon to reach imminent verdict or whether they will move on to explore funding from the late texas billionaire barren. mikmikeshanahan noticed they cod look down. showing that they are growing tired of deliberation or indication there is some dissent among their ranks. bret? bret: thank you. we will continue to follow it. patrick fitzgerald is stepping down as the u.s. attorney in chicago. he has overseen thousands of criminal prosecutions and high profile cases, including one offense former vice president top aide scooter libby, former illinois governor rod blagojevich and george ryan, media mogul conrad black. and even participated in the prosecution of the gambino crime family. no word yet why he is leighing or what the future employment ....
It in a fair and balanced debate coming up. martha: we ve got a fox news alert. we are awaiting a verdict in the john edwards corruption trial. we ll show you a second a live shot at the courthouse in greensboro, north carolina, where the jury asked to see more evidence now from that trial. jonathan serrie is live from the courthouse. jonathan yesterday they asked to see more of the evidence and testimony. what did they look for and what does that tell us about what they re thinking perhaps? yeah. hi, martha. they asked to see some additional correspondence between employees or associates of bunny mellon and, bunny mellon being one of those two wealthy donors that provided fund that allegedly helped to keep john edwards pregnant mistress, rielle hunter, in hiding during the 2008 presidential campaign. in particular we want to show you this one note they requested yesterday. this is from bunny mellon s interior decorator friend, ....
Day three of the jury drib deliberations under way in the trial of john edwards. juries ended their talks monday after requesting access to a second set of exhibits including a handwritten note from rachel bunny mellon, the 101-year-old heiress providing the nearly $1 million in those funds that edwards used to hide his pregnant mistress during his 2008 white house run. prosecutors will appeal the 30-day jail sentence given to a former rutgers university student for using a webcam to spy on his roommate s encounter with another man. tyler clementi committed suicide days after. dharun ravi faced up to ten years in prison after being convicted of anti-gay intimidation and other crimes. ravi s attorneys are expected to appeal the conviction. president obama delivered an emotional commencement address to the graduating seniors in joplin, missouri, last night. the president spoke on the eve of the one-year anniversary of ....
Convicted. jonathan serrie has been following the case, he s live outside the courthouse in greensboro. and jonathan, what evidence precisely did the jury want to look at? reporter: they requested several checks from bunny mellon she had written to interior decorator brian huffman, those checks were later cosigned and deposited by the wife of former edwards campaign aide andrew young. they also requested a 2008 voice mail message in which edwards tells andrew young about an upcoming meeting they re planning with bunny mellon, edwards says immediately after lunch she and i will break out into a private session for a couple of hours, that s when we ll do our work, including the work about you and making sure you re protected and included. and the jury asked to review a note mellon wrote andrew young in april 2007 after edwards took heat in the media for spending $400 on a hair cut n. that, mellon ....
Campaign aide young. they requested a voice mail transcript in which edwards tells andrew young about an upcoming meeting with bunny mellon. according to the transcript, edwards says immediately after lunch she and i will break out into a private session for a couple of hours, that s when we ll do our work, including the work about you and making sure you re protected and included. and the jury asked to review a note that mellon wrote andrew young in april 2007 after edwards took heat in the media for spending $400 on a hair cut. in that note, mellon writes from now on, all hair cuts, et cetera, that are necessary and important for his campaign, please send the bills to me. care of alex forger in new york. it is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. alex forger of course is bunny mellon s estate attorney. the prosecutors had entered this and other evidence, hoping to convince jurors that these items will show the intent of the donors. they would arc the prosecution ....