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THE JURY HEARING THE CASE OF MURDER OF Fire Marshal Douglas Mercereau sent a note to the judge Justice Robert Collini just before 6 pm that said, “The jury is locked at the following decision.”
The Staten Island Advance reports:
But the judge, with the consent of prosecutors Yolanda Rudich and Adam Silberlight, and Janet Redmond-Mercereau’s attorneys Mario Gallucci and Joseph Benfante, ordered the jury back into deliberations by way of a formal Allen charge.
“I’m not asking you to go back and start your deliberations again,” Collini said. “I’m telling you to go back and start your deliberations again.”
They remain in the jury room at the time of this posting.
Update, 9:30 pm:
Shortly after 8:30 pm the jury was dismissed for the night and sent back to their hotel rooms. Deliberations will continue Thursday morning.
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