Nov 26, 2009 12:18 pm US/Eastern
'Junior Gotti' Jury Returns To Court Tuesday
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
The jury considering racketeering charges against John "Junior" Gotti is taking a break until Tuesday.
The federal jurors in Manhattan deliberated four hours Wednesday before heading home for the holiday weekend.
Their 10 days of deliberations is a record for the 45-year-old Gotti's four racketeering trials. Earlier trials all ended with deadlocked juries.
Twice, the jurors considering the current charges have said they were deadlocked. Each time the judge instructed them to try again.
Gotti's judge sent the jurors home, but only after first reciting a
short lesson on the history of Thanksgiving. Gotti's lawyer Charles
Carnesi did not take the bait when a reporter tried to get him to make
a remark about the judge.
"It was very interesting. I thought it was an interesting explanation
of Thanksgiving tradition, and I wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving,"
he said.
The lawyer put a good face on it, but it was hard for the Gotti family
to do the same. When the second deadlock note came from the jury
Tuesday, they thought John Gotti would be home for the holiday because
of a hung jury. Instead, the judge sent the jury back in.
"I don't have any comment. We're spent, I don't have any, but thank you," said Victoria Gotti.
Prosecutors say the son of the late Gambino family mob boss ordered or participated in several brutal attacks since the 1980s, including three murders.
Attorneys for Gotti say he quit the Mafia in 1999 and never participated in killings.
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