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Jul 3 2008, AP

Two lawyers accused of defrauding their clients in a diet-drug settlement of $65 million were sent back to jail Thursday after a jury deadlocked and a federal judge declared a mistrial.

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In this June 21, 2007 file photo, attorney Shirley Cunningham Jr., enters the Federal Courthouse in Covington, Ky. Attorneys Shirley Cunningham Jr., William Gallion and Melbourne Mills Jr. are being tried on charges of wire fraud conspiracy that they...