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Seven defendants get hung jury before Judge Graham

After a two-month trial and over a week of deliberations, Judge Graham declared a mistrial today in a mortgage fraud case. Interestingly, shortly before trial, Judge Graham severed the case, finding that a trial of 15 defendants at once would be too unyieldly. So this first trial involved the 7 small fish defendants in the case -- the straw buyers. It will be interesting to see if the government retries this group of defendants before the next batch, or whether the more culpable batch will go next.

More of these straw buyer cases should go to trial...

Full post as published by Southern District of Florida on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).