Judge: Jury not deadlocked

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Friday, March 26, 2004 | 9:12 a.m.

NEW YORK -- The judge presiding at the criminal trial of former Tyco International Ltd. Chief Executive L. Dennis Kozlowski told jurors "to consult with" and "respect" each other to end an impasse in deliberations.

The jurors, who are also weighing criminal charges against Kozlowski's top lieutenant, Mark Swartz, told the judge in three notes yesterday that their deliberations had become "poisonous" after one juror, favoring acquittal, had stopped deliberating "in good faith."

Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus said today he did not think the jurors were deadlocked in deciding whether the two men had looted Tyco of $600 million.