The full original jury had deliberated since March 1, until two jurors became ill.
While the jury deliberated today in the trial of four New York police officers charged with murdering Amadou Diallo, a carnival-like atmosphere prevailed outside the courthouse here.
Indeed, as the jury deliberated last month in the trial of Mr. al-'Owhali and three co-defendants, one often heard the rustling pages of books, magazines and newspapers.
The 12 jurors, who convicted the rabbi, Fred J. Neulander, of murder-for-hire and two other charges on Wednesday, deliberated today for nearly two hours but could not agree on a death sentence.
But another major reason was that the unions had made it clear to the People board, as it deliberated last week on the 30th floor of the headquarters of Morgan Stanley & Company, its investment banker, that they would fight a takeover by Mr. Lorenzo.
If the new character count policy is implemented, it will allow people to compose wordier tweets but still be far less drastic than another change that Twitter reportedly deliberated earlier this year, which would have raised its limit to thousands of characters.
As Congress deliberated this spring on nuclear weapons-related projects, including funding for the development of more modern submarines and bombers, the top 14 contractors gave nearly $3 million to the 2012 reelection campaigns of lawmakers whose support they needed for these and other projects, the report disclosed.
The jurors began deliberating yesterday morning at Gracie Mansion, and did not emerge until shortly before 11 p.m.
The governing body of the pilots union at Delta Air Lines was still deliberating yesterday whether to approve a tentative contract agreement with the airline, the organization said.
