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Thursday, February 01, 2007


Remember the secretary that allegedly stole the Coke trade secret and tried to sell them to Pepsi? It's getting weird:
A federal jury deliberating the fate of a former Coca-Cola secretary charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets from the beverage maker in an effort to sell them to Pepsi told a judge Thursday it is unable to make a decision.

"We are a hung jury, have taken several polls and we feel we are unable to reach a decision," the foreperson said in a note to U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester.

Forrester did not declare a mistrial. Instead, he told the jury to take another crack at reaching a verdict Friday in the case against Joya Williams.

The jury already has deliberated nine hours over two days.
The lawyers have had two years to distill their stories, so it barely sounds like the same case as the original story, but still, pretty nutty. This part got my attention:
The government says Williams was deeply in debt, unhappy in her job and seeking a big payday, so she embarked on the scheme to steal trade secrets.
That first part sounds like just about any American I've ever met.



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