Afternoon Briefing: WXRT star Terri Hemmert recounts fatal New Orleans shooting

Good afternoon, Chicago.

After a long weekend, a federal jury has returned today for a fourth day of deliberations in the “ComEd Four” trial of a group of executives and lobbyists who allegedly conspired to bribe then-House Speaker Michael Madigan to win his influence over the utility’s legislative agenda in Springfield.

Shortly after resuming talks today, the jury sent a note asking the court to “clarify a possible discrepancy with the use of conjunctions and/or” in the indictment and instructions. It was a nearly identical question sent by the jury in the sexual abuse trial last year of R. Kelly, which was also in front of Leinenweber.

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