U.S. District Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala declared a mistrial late Friday afternoon in the federal trial of a Madison police officer whose takedown of Sureshbhai Patel, 57, left him man partially paralyzed, al.com reported

During the course of deliberations, the 12-person jury informed Judge Haikala they could not reach a verdict â€“ which must be unanimous. The police officer, Eric Parker, was charged with violating the civil rights under color of law of Sureshbhai Patel.

Ultimately, the jury told the judge on four different occasions they could not reach a verdict.

Prosecutor Robert Posey said the U.S. government will try the case against Parker again.

\"We plan to re-try the case and so another jury will get a chance to see this evidence and hear the testimony,\" Posey said. \"We will let them decide.\"

The case has drawn international attention after video of the take down of Patel went viral. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley issued an apology to the government of India for the incident. In his apology, the governor described the actions taken by Parker as \"excessive force.\"

The north Alabama jury did not fully agree.

Based on the final note the jury sent to Haikala, no jury changed their position since deliberations began anew when an alternate juror was added on Thursday morning. Altogether, the new jury deliberated about 10 hours.

We plan to re-try the case and so another jury will get a chance to see this evidence and hear the testimony.

\"That\'s one thing that we might never know,\" Parker\'s attorney, Robert Tuten, said when asked what he thought made the difference with the jury. \"Obviously some of them saw things our way and some of them didn\'t. At the end of the day, we come back and try it again. We\'ll see how that goes.\"

Parker, who is on administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings against him, appeared to be uplifted throughout the day Friday as about 20 friends and family offered support while holding vigil in the courtroom awaiting the trial\'s outcome.

When the judge declared the mistrial, there was no emotional reaction evident from Parker, though he was in chambers with the attorneys as they met with Haikala before she announced the end of the trial.

Parker declined comment when approached by an AL.com reporter.

\"He wasn\'t convicted and I know he\'s happy about that,\" Tuten said. \"Obviously he doesn\'t think he should be. He\'s done nothing wrong. Hopefully he can get some peace and comfort from that.\"

The Patel family, through attorney Hank Sherrod, declined to comment on the mistrial in an email to AL.com.

A re-trial won\'t be far in the future. Posey said federal law mandates the trial begin within 70 days, unless one side asks for a delay and it\'s granted by the judge.

\"Our team is going to go back and huddle up and review, as you might expect, everything that we\'ve done and see if there\'s anything we want to change,\" Posey said. \"We were able to introduce all of our evidence. The jury got a chance to hear from the defendant. We\'ll just look forward to the next time.\"

Haikala told jurors as she dismissed them that they could not speak to anyone about the trial for two days.

Video shows Alabama police officer throwing grandfather from India to the ground

The trial took two weeks, with testimony and closing arguments completed on Wednesday.

The jury first told the judge they could not reach a verdict late on Thursday afternoon. Haikala sent them home for the night and told them to resume their work Friday morning.

By 2:30 Friday afternoon, the jury had twice sent notes to the judge saying they could not complete their task.

After the third note of a stalemate, Haikala gave the jury the so-called \"dynamite charge\" â€“ reminding them of the time, expense and emotional stress invested in the trial by both sides. She also told the jury there would be no reason for them to believe another jury could reach a verdict in a potential re-trial.

That exhortation failed to sway the jury to a unanimous decision.

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/09/mistrial_declared_in_indian_gr.html#incart_river

Mistrial declared in Sureshbhai Patel trial