Jurors deadlock in 6 of 7 defendants in Sears Tower plot; 7th acquitted
Posted December 12, 2007 10:00 pm
MIAMI -- One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked.
The mistrial means prosecutors will have to decide whether to retry the six men.
The outcome was a setback for the Bush administration, which had seized on the case to illustrate the dangers of homegrown terrorism and trumpet the government's post-Sept. 11 success in infiltrating and smashing terror plots in their very earliest stages.
Lyglenson Lemorin, who was not the alleged ringleader, was acquitted.
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