JURY RETURNS PARTIAL VERDICTS BABYDOL DELIBERATIONS RESUME ON 4 REMAINING CHARGES.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Staff Writer Jurors in the pimping pimping Academia See Pimp. Cf Pumping. trial of Jody Babydol Gibson returned sealed verdicts A decision reached by the jury when the court is not in session, which is placed in a closed envelope by the jurors, who then separate. A sealed verdict is opened and read when the court reconvenes, and it has the same effect as if it had been returned in open court before on three counts Thursday but signaled they are hung up on the remaining four charges. Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Lloyd M. Nash accepted the verdicts in a sealed envelope and ordered the jury to return today for a seventh day of deliberations. Gibson, 41, is charged with three counts of pimping and four counts of pandering by procuring, charges that could send her to prison for up to 17 years. Gibson is accused of running an international call-girl empire catering to celebrities, executives and sports figures. After six days of silence, jurors posed their first question Thursday, asking the judge to help them understand pandering laws. ``We would like a definition as to the following: procuring, causing, inducing, encouraging, persuading, device and scheme in order to clarify the pandering law,'' the jury asked. Nash said he already had included the definitions in the jury instructions Jury instructions are the set of legal rules that jurors must follow when the jury is deciding a civil or criminal case. Jury instructions are given to the jury by the judge, who usually reads them aloud to the jury. and he could not help further. Under a grant of immunity, three women testified at trial that they worked for Gibson as prostitutes, charging clients $1,000 an hour and giving Gibson a 40 percent cut. One of the women said she approached Gibson to find ways to supplement her income. Another woman accused Gibson of threatening her when she was late in making a payment to Gibson. The women's testimony was intended to support the three charges of pimping, as well as three charges of pandering. Gibson is charged with a fourth count of pandering for encouraging an undercover police officer to work as a prostitute, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. court records. At the trial, the three women each said they sought out Gibson by getting her number through friends. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Deputy District Attorney Richard Walmark declined to comment on the partial verdicts partial verdict n. in a criminal trial, when the jury finds the defendant guilty of one or more charges but not guilty of one or more other charges. (See: verdict) . Defense attorney Gerald Scotti said the length of deliberation deliberation n. the act of considering, discussing, and, hopefully, reaching a conclusion, such as a jury's discussions, voting and decision-making. DELIBERATION, contracts, crimes. , partial verdicts and the jury question did not necessarily indicate which way the panel was leaning. ``You never know if a jury asking a question is a product of them as a whole or just one or two of them,'' Scotti said outside of court. |
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