Two days before the jury at the embassy bombing trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani would reach a verdict, it seemed to be on the verge of a deadlock.
In Berlin, Mrs. Merkel canceled a speech to Parliament on Friday because of a deadlock over proposals to leverage the bailout fund, known as the European Financial Stability Facility.
On Monday, the prospect of a deadlock was raised when a juror asked to be removed because she was alone in her view of the case and felt she was being attacked by other jurors.
The 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia led to a deadlock on the court, buying unions more time.
And anticipating a tie vote, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a backer of the ban, wrote to Vice President Dick Cheney to urge him to support the ban should he be called on to break a deadlock.
Experts differ on whether a deadlock, if a vote were actually taken and a tie resulted, would allow the lower panel's ruling to stand or would overturn it.
"Sources" reported that a Manhattan lawyer who insisted on focusing "on really odd points" led two fellow jurors in a deadlock on a rape charge against a New York City police officer, Michael Pena, who was convicted in the sexual assault on a 25-year-old woman.
If the court does decide on the merits, a deadlock would allow the conviction to stand, since the Georgia courts upheld it.
BANGKOK — Cambodia's long-serving, authoritarian prime minister, Hun Sen, was elected to another five-year term in office on Tuesday despite a deadlock with the opposition, which has refused to attend the National Assembly in protest over alleged electoral cheating.
