Denny jury told to start again

Phil Reeves
Monday 11 October 1993 23:02 BST
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After a week of deliberations, a jury had to start again from scratch in the racially-sensitive trial of two black men accused of beating Reginald Denny, a white lorry driver, at the start of the Los Angeles riots, writes Phil Reeves in Los Angeles. They were ordered to begin again after the judge replaced a black female juror with an alternate following complaints that she refused to deliberate and did not understand what was going on.

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