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Blagojevich jury returns to deliberate in corruption retrial

By the CNN Wire Staff
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • No verdict was reached Thursday
  • The ex-governor, accused of trying to sell Obama's old Senate seat, faces 20 charges
  • In August, a jury couldn't agree on 23 of 24 charges then filed against Blagojevich

Chicago (CNN) -- Federal jurors at the retrial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich return Monday to resume deliberations. It will be the sixth day of deliberations in the corruption case against him.

Charges against Blagojevich include trying to peddle the U.S. Senate seat that belonged to Barack Obama before he resigned to become president.

Blagojevich has denied any intention of bribery.

The jury is weighing the ex-governor's guilt or innocence on 20 public-corruption-related counts.

No verdict was reached Thursday and the jurors headed home for the weekend.

In August, after a two-month trial and 14 days of deliberation, jurors deadlocked on 23 of the 24 charges Blagojevich had faced. They found him guilty on one count of lying to FBI investigators, a conviction that could carry a prison sentence of five years.

The accusation that Blagojevich tried to profit as he considered whom to appoint to succeed Obama, among other allegations, prompted his impeachment by Illinois' House of Representatives and his removal from office by the state Senate in 2009.