Jury in Plague Trial Breaks for Holiday

After four hours of deliberation yesterday, the jury in the case of Texas Tech University professor Thomas Butler agreed to break until Monday morning, the Morris News Service reported today (see GSN, Nov. 25).

Butler is on trial for almost 70 counts, including charges of making false statements to federal agents stemming from a January incident where Butler reported that 30 vials of plague samples were missing and believed to have been stolen from his laboratory. Butler later signed a statement, however, saying that he had destroyed the vials and has since recanted that statement (Morris News Service/Amarillo Globe News, Nov. 26).

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