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Gotti Jurors Break Deliberations Until Tuesday

By DNAinfo Staff on November 26, 2009 1:42pm

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John "Junior" Gotti leaves Manhattan federal court in New York after his third trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 27, 2006.
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The jury in John "Junior" Gotti's fourth trial on racketeering charges will take a break from deliberations until Tuesday.

The jury has twice told Manhattan Judge Kevin Castel that they are deadlocked only to have him tell them to try again, according to the Associated Press.

Gotti, son of the late Gambino family mob boss John Gotti, stands accused of ordering and participating in attacks, including three murders, dating to the 1980s.

The jury has deliberated for 10 days, a record for Gotti's trials, the AP reported. The members had been deliberating for four hours Wednesday when Judge Castel excused them for the holiday weekend.

"Park it. Put it aside," Castel said in the New York Post. "Come back refreshed, hopefully not with indigestion from overeating."