The judge presiding over the corruption case of U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pennsylvania, dismissed a member of the jury June 17 and instructed the remaining jurors to start their deliberations from the beginning.
U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania did not explain the reason for the jurors’ dismissal. Mark Lee, a lawyer for Fattah, declined to comment. The dismissal comes after the first full day of deliberation, which was punctuated by several hours-long meetings between lawyers and the judge in chambers and hushed conversations within the courtroom.
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