Jury Struggles At ABC Radio Reporter-Death Trial
NEW YORK (AP) -- A jury is struggling with its deliberations at the trial of a New York City teenager accused of killing a radio newsman he met through Craigslist.
The Brooklyn jurors sent out a note Wednesday at the trial of John Katehis. It said: "No consensus will be made. People's minds are made up.''
The judge instructed them to have lunch and go back to work.
Police found George Weber's stabbed body on his bedroom floor in March 2009.
Prosecutors say Weber responded to Katehis' Craigslist ad offering sex for money.
The defense says Weber preyed on an underage, money-desperate youth. It says Katehis defended himself during a struggle.
Weber was an ABC News Radio freelancer. He'd also worked at WABC in New York, and stations in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania.
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