Article: Bullock guilty on 12 charges

State Rep. Larry S. Bullock (D-Chicago) was found not guilty of racketeering but guilty of 12 lesser charges by a federal jury yesterday.

The jury could not reach a unanimous decision on three other charges - two of extortion and one of lying to federal agents.

Contacted later, jurors said they were divided 11-1 in favor of conviction on the three charges that produced a deadlock. They identified the holdout as a woman who had lived in Bullock's district for 27 years.

"We spent all day trying to convince her," said juror Fred J. Palello, a retired packing-company foreman from the west suburbs.

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