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‘Hung jury’ concerns in Tarloff ‘cleaver slay’ trial

There’s more trouble for the Manhattan “cleaver slay” jury at the end of day 4 of deliberations.

Jurors — who are mulling the fate of cleaver-swinging schizophrenic David Tarloff, — sent out a note at 4:25 p.m. today asking the judge to explain the consequences a “hung jury.”

“We the jury request clarification of the consequences of a hung jury,” the note read.

“We are at risk,” the note read. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin told the weary-looking jurors that they are not to speculate on the consequences of a hung jury, and sent them home to return tomorrow morning at 9:35 to continue their deliberations.

Tarloff is hoping to be found not responsible by reason of insanity for killing psychologist Kathryn Faughey and nearly killing her colleague, Dr. Kent Shinbach, in their Upper East Side psychiatry suite during a botched robbery five years ago.

The second day of deliberations had ended with one juror writing to the judge that, “Due to other jurors and their negative attitudes… I would rather go home and be removed from this case.”

The jury sallied on through day three with little more sign of trouble than audible shouting from the deliberations room, and today had been almost entirely quiet.

Tarloff faces life in prison if convicted of murder, and an indefinite term in a locked psychiatric facility if found not responsible by reason of insanity.