PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
June 21, 2012|By John P. Martin, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Lawyers call a judge’s speech to a deadlocked jury a “dynamite charge,” the workingman’s nickname for a bid to blast through an impasse.
On Wednesday, the 12th day of jury deliberations in the 13th week of the child-endangerment and sex-abuse trial of two Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests, the dynamite sticks came out. It just wasn’t clear who might get hurt.
Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina’s directive could dislodge a verdict in the landmark trial of a Catholic Church supervisor. Or it could implode a case a decade in the making.
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