Jury ends eighth day of talks in Edwards campaign finance trial

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Jury ends eighth day of talks in Edwards campaign finance trial



Former U.S. Senator John Edwards leaves the federal court house in GreensboroGREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The alternate jurors in former U.S. Senator John Edwards' federal trial learned on Wednesday they could to return to their normal lives as deliberations dragged on about whether the ex-White House hopeful broke the law trying to hide an affair. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles did not officially dismiss the alternates from duty but said they no longer had to report to the courthouse in Greensboro, North Carolina, each day. ...









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