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Continued: Jury told to deliberate some more in diet drug case

Bertelsman asked Cunningham and Gallion if it was their desire to have deliberations continue.

"It is," Cunningham said in the first statement to the court since the trial began.

"Yes, it is, your honor," Gallion told Bertelsman.

Prosecutors said in closing arguments last week that the lawyers were motivated by greed when they took a $127 million payment to settle a 2001 lawsuit in which they should have been paid $60 million. Defense attorneys said the lawyers didn't commit any crimes and any mistakes in the settlement were unintentional.

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