partial verdict

After the partial verdicts were read, they seemed to find hope.

As part of the charge, the judge told the jurors that they could offer a partial verdict.

The partial verdict came after 33 days of jury deliberations.

"This is perfect for an interim partial verdict," she said.

The jury had said last week that it had reached a partial verdict.

With the partial verdict on Thursday in the insurers' favor, it is certain that he will not receive enough insurance money to complete the project.

The partial verdict is a blow to the government, coming at a time when the number of insider trading cases has surged.

The jury deliberated five full days before returning its partial verdict with a deadlock note.

Mr. Lukens declined to speak with reporters after hearing the partial verdict.

On Monday, the jurors sent a note to the judge saying they had reached a partial verdict but were deadlocked on the others.

And yesterday's partial verdict was somewhat surprising given that federal prosecutors had obtained at least 10 guilty pleas earlier in the case.

Justice Edwin Torres called the jurors to the courtroom to hear the partial verdicts.

Reaction to the partial verdicts in the Denny case - acquittals on most of the serious charges - has mainly split along racial lines.

The partial verdicts cast little light on which version the jurors believed, Mr. Kelly said.

After 19 days of deliberations, the jury returned a partial verdict on Thursday, awarding Litton $234 million.

A prosecutor, Elizabeth Miller-Hall, said the required conditions existed to permit return of a partial verdict.

Yesterday, with the consent of the prosecutors and defense lawyers, he accepted what Mr. Burnett termed a "partial verdict."

When another effort to reach agreement failed, Judge Griesa told the jurors that they could render a partial verdict, which they did in minutes.

The partial verdict left open many questions in a case that revisited a chapter in the city's past that many had thought was closed.

"This is a partial verdict," he said in a brief statement issued later by his spokesman, Howard J. Rubenstein.

The partial verdict and continuing deliberations weighed on members of Mr. Fisher's family who have been in court every day of the trial.

The partial verdict left prosecutors with the power to retry Mr. Schwarz, who has now been convicted three times on charges related to the assault.

The mixed decisions were the principal elements of a partial verdict the jury returned after deliberating for nine days in a trial that started in mid-April.

Mr. Schwarz is to be retried on the three charges the jury left unresolved in its partial verdict on July 16.

The partial verdict limits the amount the jury can award Kearns, said Jim Hayes, a patent lawyer in Cincinnati.