Jury in Philly police corruption trial to resume its work Monday

Jurors in the federal corruption trial against six members of an elite Philadelphia Police Department narcotics squad ended their second day of deliberations Friday without a verdict.

The six-man, six-woman panel discussed the case behind closed doors for more than seven hours, emerging about 3 p.m. to ask question about the legal language surrounding one count of falsifying a police report.

U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno ordered the group back at 9 a.m. Monday to start the trial's seventh week.

Officers Thomas Liciardello, Brian Reynolds, Michael Spicer, Perry Betts, Linwood Norman and John Speiser stand accused of routinely roughing up drug suspects, pocketing seized drug money, and lying on official police paperwork to hide their crimes. - Jeremy Roebuck