October 26, 2007

Texas Southern President's Trial Ends in Hung Jury

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

The sensational financial-mismanagement trial of a former Texas Southern University president, Priscilla D. Slade, has ended in a mistrial.

After four days of deliberations, the jury sent a note to the judge, Brock Thomas, of the State District Court in Houston, to say that the six men and six women had "agonized" over the evidence. "However, we cannot arrive at a unanimous verdict without doing violence to our consciences," the note said. "To continue deliberating would be of no