FirstEnergy corruption trial's indictments accidentally given to jury

FirstEnergy corruption trial's indictments accidentally given to jury

The jury in the FirstEnergy corruption trial finished their seventh day of deliberations without a verdict, but they were pulled into the courtroom because the judge accidentally gave them documents they weren't supposed to see. Of them, at least several pages of the state's updated indictment document made it to their room.The Summit County jury has been deliberating for a full week, trying to decide on whether former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jone…

Jurors in FirstEnergy bribery case hit ‘impasse;’ judge makes last call for a verdict - Signal Cleveland

Jurors tasked with determining whether two FirstEnergy Corp. executives paid a $4.3 million bribe to capture a top state regulator have reached an “impasse,” a judge said Monday.  While the declaration hasn’t yielded a mistrial, the comments to Summit County Common Pleas Judge Susan Baker Ross indicate that after eight full days of closed-door deliberations and a six-week trial, the 12 jurors can’t reach consensus. They’re considering a total of…