NORTH CAROLINA
Associated Press
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a North Carolina minister accused of orchestrating the beating of a gay congregant (all times local):
5:35 p.m.
The son of a juror arrested during the trial of a North Carolina minister charged with beating a gay congregant says his father made a mistake by taking unauthorized documents to court.
The jury was in its second day of deliberations Tuesday in the trial of Brooke Covington, a minister at Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, North Carolina, when 71-year-old Perry Shade Jr. was charged with contempt for bringing the papers.
Judge Gary Gavenus had warned jurors not to do their own research.
Gavenus declared a mistrial and sentenced Shade to 30 days in jail and $500 fine.
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