LOS ANGELES — A second day of deliberations ended Monday in Britney Spears’ driving without a valid license case without a verdict.
Jurors left for the day after saying earlier in the day that they were hopelessly deadlocked. A foreman said they had voted three times since Friday, and each time failed to reach an unanimous conclusion.
The three votes were all 10 to 2, the foreman said without indicating whether which way.
Superior Court Judge James A. Steele asked the panel to take one more vote and try to make progress. Jurors were read testimony by Spears’ father, Jamie, but did not indicate another stalemate before leaving. They resume their deliberations this morning.
‘Oprah Winfrey Show’ is available in Spanish
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” is becoming bilingual.
Chicago-based Harpo Productions says the show is being made available in Spanish through Secondary Audio Programming and closed captioning.
The Spanish-language offerings launched Monday in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston and Dallas. More cities are expected to be added this season.
Harpo is picking up the cost of the translation service in order to boost its Hispanic audience.
Fed lawyers seek long term for Catholic Church fraud defendant
Prosecutors said Monday they were surprised the former boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway sent a judge a photo of himself and the pope while seeking leniency for cheating investors of millions of dollars by claiming he could buy Catholic Church property on the cheap.
They urged the judge Thursday to impose the more than four years in prison that Raffaello Follieri agreed to when he entered a guilty plea last month rather than the three years his defense lawyers requested in a recent submission of their own.
The prosecutors said Follieri included pictures of the pope and other clergymen even though his claims of Vatican ties were the foundation of his fraud.
“This is surprising because Follieri used these same photographs and connections in order to defraud investors and now seeks to use them in an effort to obtain a reduced sentence,” they said.
Follieri, 30, last month pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering and agreed to forfeit $2.4 million.
Associated Press
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