A jury will resume its deliberations Wednesday in the fraud trial of former Philadelphia sportscaster Don Tollefson.
After deliberating for hours on Tuesday a judge sent the jury home approximately at 9:30 p.m.
"The trial was about two and a half weeks long. They are a hard working jury and I have no quarrel with them taking as long as it takes to get it right and I'm very confident that they will do that," said Bucks County Assistant District Attorney.
Tollefson, who is representing himself, said, "With the advice of counsel I really have nothing to say I just want to get some rest, come back tomorrow morning 9 a.m."
Tollefson is a former Philadelphia sportscaster accused of bilking hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who thought they were buying sporting event trips set up by Tollefson's Winning Ways charity.
Prosecutors said Tollefson tricked roughly 200 people out of $340,000 worth of bogus sports and travel packages.
Tollefson claimed he was a bad businessman, with a charitable heart, who was also battling drug and alcohol addiction.
He said he was a bad bookkeeper and didn't realize there was a problem until he ran out of money in 2012.
The jury asked to see transcripts of some of the testimony.
The judge told them they would have to rely on their memory.
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