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Jury deliberations resume Thursday in Katrina case
Posted: Aug 4, 2011 9:18 AM by Lauren Wilson & AP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jurors are returning for a second day of deliberations in the trial of five current or former police officers charged in deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
The jury deliberated for several hours Wednesday without reaching a verdict. Deliberations are scheduled to resume Thursday.
Prosecutors contend the officers shot unarmed people without justification and without warning, killing two and wounding four others Sept. 5, 2005, then embarked on a cover-up involving made-up witnesses, falsified reports and a planted gun.
Defense attorneys countered that the officers were returning fire on the city's Danziger Bridge and reasonably believed their lives were in danger as they rushed to respond to a distress call less than a week after Katrina.
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