Jury set for 4th day of Pa. guard deliberations

Jury set for 4th day of Pa. guard deliberations

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jurors are set to return for a fourth day of deliberations in the trial of a fired Pittsburgh state prison guard charged with 80 counts of physically abusing or sexually assaulting inmates — or having other guards and inmate workers do it for him. Sixty-one-year-old Harry Nicoletti is charged by Allegheny County prosecutors with targeting convicted child molesters and gay inmates at the century-old lockup.

On Tuesday, the jury appeared to be focusing on charges that Nicoletti had others assault the inmates.

They first asked a judge to define “solicitation” — which Nicoletti allegedly did when he had an inmate beat up another — and then had a court reporter read testimony by one inmate who claimed Nicoletti molested him and had him beat up others.

Deliberations have been scheduled to resume about 9 a.m. today.