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No verdict in Enron case after fifth day
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published May 25, 2006
HOUSTON - Jurors in the fraud and conspiracy trial of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling deliberated for a fifth day Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the premier criminal case to emerge from the company's collapse. The panel has deliberated for about 31 hours over five days. Deliberations were to resume today. In a midday note to the judge, the panel asked for additional copies of a list of trial exhibits and asked whether it was possible to see testimony transcripts. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake said he would ask jurors to be more specific about the testimony. "I can't really answer that question without knowing exactly what they want," Lake said. Both defendants awaited the outcome away from the federal courthouse in Houston - Lay at his office about two blocks away, and Skilling in his legal team's so-called "war room" in an office building across the street. The defendants deny any wrongdoing and attribute Enron's failure to bad publicity and lost market confidence.
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