Nov 23, 2009 7:48 am US/Eastern
Gotti Jury To Resume Deliberations In NYC
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A New York jury which has been considering racketeering charges against John "Junior" Gotti for more than a week has told a judge it's unable to agree on a verdict.
AP
Jurors at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti are scheduled to resume deliberations in federal court in Manhattan.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel told the jurors to return Monday.
Last Thursday, jurors raised the specter of a fourth mistrial when they wrote the judge they were deadlocked on charges including murder.
Prosecutors allege 45-year-old Gotti, son of the late infamous mob boss, orchestrated a kidnapping and attempted murder plot against Guardian Angels anti-crime group founder Curtis Sliwa as well as a series of gangland murders dating to the 1980s.
Attorneys for Gotti claimed he quit the Mafia in 1999 and that lying turncoat mobsters were framing him to try to get leniency in their own cases.
CBS 2 asked Gotti's lawyer, Charles Carnesi, how he and Gotti were "reading" the jury.
"Once they came out with the other note and that was gonna take them some time, then I think the judge made the right call to send them home," said Carnesi. "It tells me that they're asking questions, they're doing their job."
Gotti's three previous trials ended in hung juries.
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