08 Mar 2013

New York Jury Mulling Federal Slavery Case

"A federal jury will resume deliberations Friday in the case of an upstate New York woman accused of cheating an Indian household servant out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay and keeping her a virtual prisoner at a mansion.  The jury in Albany went home shortly after 5 p.m., about three hours after it got the case." - Mary Esch, Associated Press, Mar. 7, 2013.
Additional coverage here, here and here.