Jurors Deadlocked In Sears Tower Plot

MIAMI — To the prosecution, the so-called Liberty City Seven were aspiring terrorists with plans to strike at Chicago's Sears Tower and elsewhere, men caught on tape swearing allegiance to Osama bin Laden. To the defense they were dupes, egged on by a government informant posing as an Al Qaeda emissary. After a two-month trial and nine days of deliberations, jurors could not agree on which side was right. They acquitted one defendant but deadlocked on the rest.

"There was a lot of evidence, and people see evidence different ways," a teacher and lawyer, jury foreman Jeff Agron, said. "My personal belief is that there may have been sufficient evidence on some of them as to some of the counts."