If at first you don't succeed

MIAMI — The retrial of six construction workers accused of conspiring to join forces with Al Qaeda and blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago began on Friday, seven weeks after the jury in the first trial deadlocked on those defendants and acquitted a seventh.

In opening statements, prosecutors and defense lawyers hewed to essentially the same arguments they made in the first trial, the outcome of which was widely regarded as a significant defeat for the government.

(NYTimes)