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Jury in Manafort case appears closer to verdict, quizzes judge

August 21, 2018 / 5:04 AM / Updated 2 hours ago
Karen Freifeld, Nathan Layne

ARLINGTON, Va. (Reuters) - Jurors in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort signaled on Tuesday they were struggling to reach agreement on one of the 18 counts of financial crimes he faces.

In a sign that the jury at the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, may be coming closer to a verdict, jurors asked Judge T.S. Ellis how to fill out a verdict form for a single count if they cannot agree on that count.

Ellis read the jurors’ question aloud in court and said he would tell them to try to reach unanimous consensus on all the counts of bank and tax fraud that Manafort faces.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-russia-manafort/jury-in-manafort-case-appears-closer-to-verdict-quizzes-judge-idUSKCN1L60WU