Miller Jury Ends 8th Day
The jury in the Richard W. Miller spy case in Los Angeles federal court completed its eighth day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict.
Jurors had asked last week for the testimony of three witnesses to be reread to them by a court stenographer, a process that took more than three days to complete. The testimony repeated for the jury was from Armand Mauss, a defense expert on the Mormon religion; Gary G. Auer, Miller’s former boss on the FBI’s Soviet counterintelligence squad in Los Angeles, and John Hunt, a former FBI counterintelligence agent.
Miller, 48, the first FBI agent ever charged with espionage, faces a possible life prison sentence if convicted of passing secret documents vital to U.S. defense to the Soviet Union.
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