Jury expected to begin deliberations in Mississippi smoking case
Jump to full article: AP, 2000-07-12
Author: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Intro: HERNANDO - A DeSoto County jury began deliberations Tuesday in a $102 million wrongful death suit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died in 1989 of lung cancer.
Closing arguments ended at about 4:30 p.m. Circuit Court Judge George Carlson Jr. sent jurors into closed chambers and dismissed the four alternates.
A court employee said all four told her they would find in favor of the tobacco company.
''It was easy for them to make a decision,'' said the employee, who would not give her name. ''Based on that, I don't expect the jury to take long.''
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