With no verdict and no decision on whether John Dougherty's extortion case will be tried again, we break down what happens next and a possible reason behind the jury's indecision.
With no verdict and no decision on whether John Dougherty's extortion case will be tried again, we break down what happens next and a possible reason behind the jury's indecision.
🏛️ Either way, Dougherty’s days in a federal courtroom aren’t over just yet. He still faces the near certainty of a significant prison term atof the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and what it’s like to be on the opposite side of an argument from him.
Therefore, the high court concluded, it would be inappropriate to classify such tactics — when they’re aimed at advancing union interests — as extortion. He maintained that his threats amid his nephew’s pay dispute with Palmieri, like pulling workers from the casino job site, were in hopes of achieving a union interest — ensuring union members were paid fairly for the work they did. He argued he would have done the same for any other Local 98 member involved in a dispute over wages.
But this time was different. As 5 p.m. came and went in the Reading courtroom, Schmehl showed no signs of stopping.and salads were brought in for the jury. And as reporters traded access to the room’s single power outlet keeping phone and laptop batteries alive, it eventually became clear that, and by that point, he had resigned to celebrating the big 6-4 waiting on a verdict, with doughnuts and soft pretzels, in a nearby conference room.in its deliberations.
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