{"id":422529,"date":"2026-10-08T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422529\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:56:10","slug":"what-if-we-cant-come-to-an-agreement-mimms-jury-asks-st-lucie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422529\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What if we can\u2019t come to an agreement?\u2019 Mimms\u2019 jury asks | St. Lucie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE \u2013 Jury questions to Circuit Judge Michael Linn from the panel deliberating a verdict in the Nicholas Mimms felony case showed a sign of fracture Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A note from the sequestered jury asked about the City of Fort Pierce\u2019s policy and procedures manual, in particular a section on prohibitions on city employees and their families doing business with the city.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Linn said it\u2019s up to jurors to determine what they conclude from the evidence introduced at trial.<\/p>\n<p>A second question asked Judge Linn, \u201cWhat if we can\u2019t come to an agreement?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, Judge Linn responded saying the jury must consider the instructions he gave them and their impression of the evidence that was provided at trial.<\/p>\n<p>The judge and attorneys for both sides found it hard to react to that question because the jury did not make it clear whether they could be deadlocked on a single charge or both bid tampering and official misconduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2013 Jury questions to Circuit Judge Michael Linn from the panel deliberating a verdict in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-422529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}