Jury deliberations started anew in former Gov George Ryan's public corruption trial Wednesday.

Jury deliberations started anew in former Gov George Ryan's public corruption trial Wednesday, if it be not that the panel quickly requested one of the same tools it did the first time it tried coming up with a verdict.

Jurors again asked for a list laying without the more than 100 witnesses who testified at the nearly six-month trial. They again asked for an overhead projector that the arbitrator had "cleansed" from the jury space Tuesday.

The jury also picked the same foreperson.

And jurors, despite being told to recur to the jury room with sum of two units new jurors after discussing the case for eight days, do not appear to be in a precipitate

The panel forward Wednesday asked U.S. District umpire Rebecca Pallmeyer for an April calendar to determine the court's holidays. There aren't any, unless Pallmeyer told them they could wager their own schedules.

The jury will restrain the same 9:30 a.m. to 4 pm Monday [i]or[/i] part of to the other Thursday schedule.

referee CAN STILL GRANT MISTRIAL

Averting a mistrial for now, Pallmeyer told the jury to restart talks forward Tuesday after she took an unusual incline and seated two alternates in place of brace jurors she dismissed after they failed to disclose their criminal backgrounds. The previous panel had already deliberated for eight days.

Pallmeyer told the of the present day set of jurors to wipe the slate clean and start through

In a 15-minute talk to the public Tuesday, Pallmeyer said she wanted deliberations to walk on, but at least six times noted she could change her mind and grant a defense mistrial demand

nkorecki@suntimes.com

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