“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, will you please try once again.”

By Gordon Lambie
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, will you please try once again.”

Day six of deliberations at the Lac Mégantic Criminal Negligence Trial in Sherbrooke brought with it a jury at an impasse. One day after returning to the courtroom for the first time to ask questions of clarification, the 12-member jury sent word mid-afternoon on Tuesday that they could not come to a consensus regarding verdicts and asked for guidance from Judge Gaetan Dumas. “You have reported that you are having difficulty reaching a verdict,” Judge Dumas said. “It is not mandatory, but obviously desireable, that you do so.” See full story in the Wednesday, Jan. 17th edition of The Record.

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