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Gotti jury asks for readbacks; still no decision

Originally published: November 23, 2009 1:34 PM
Updated: November 23, 2009 9:58 PM
By JOHN RILEY  john.riley@newsday.com

Quick ReadWhen deliberations resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday, this Gotti jury's ninth day will set a record. Gotti's three previous trials lasted three, six and eight days.

John Gotti, Junior, trial, mistrial, hung jury, federal

Photo credit: AP | The judge in John "Junior" Gotti's fourth racketeering trial was debating postponing the trial because of a juror's previously planned vacation. (file photo)

The wait goes on.

Returning for an eighth day of deliberations, jurors in the John "Junior" Gotti racketeering trial in federal court in Manhattan Monday asked for extended readbacks of testimony relating to two drug-related murder counts against the mob prince as they tried to break a deadlock.

The jury asked to review testimony from star prosecution informant John Alite, two other...

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