Lodi

Federal prosecutors announced Friday that they will retry a Lodi man whose first trial on charges that he lied to FBI agents during a terrorism investigation ended in a mistrial last month after half the jury voted for acquittal on one of the counts. U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr.

The government had no direct evidence. The confession was vague and even contradictory. And the statements about attacking American targets came only after heavy prompting from FBI interrogators. But what the three federal prosecutors could -- and did -- show convincingly was that 23-year-old Hamid Hayat of Lodi, Calif., espoused strong anti-American sentiments, supported militant Muslim political parties in Pakistan and had a romantic attachment to the idea of jihad.

Federal prosecutors expressed confidence Friday that the unanimous conviction of a 23-year-old Lodi man on terrorism charges would stand despite a juror's contention that she was bullied into a guilty verdict by other jurors. "It is a long-settled principle of law that second thoughts about a verdict by a juror are not enough to overturn that verdict," said McGregor Scott, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California.

Grim. Discouraged. Mistrustful. As word spread of local resident Hamid Hayat's conviction, the mood descended over this Central Valley farm town's community of Pakistani Muslims like a sudden afternoon storm.

The scorecard read like an NBA blowout. By the time the jury finished voting on each piece of evidence, the score was 135-40 for the prosecution. Hamid Hayat, the 23-year-old Lodi man charged with attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and lying about it, was convicted on all four counts. The systematic way the jurors moved through the charges during nine days of deliberation was detailed Wednesday by jury foreman Joe Cote, a 64-year-old retired medical equipment salesman from Folsom.

A federal jury Tuesday convicted a 23-year-old Lodi man of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and returning to the United States to commit violent jihad against his fellow citizens. Hamid Hayat, a Pakistani American born in Stockton, was found guilty of one count of providing material support for terrorism and three counts of lying to the FBI. He faces up to 39 years in prison at a sentencing hearing set for July 14.

In a possible sign of trouble for prosecutors, a federal jury reported Monday that it was unable to reach a decision in the case against Lodi ice cream truck driver Umer Hayat, who is accused of lying to the FBI about his son's attendance at a terrorism training camp in Pakistan. Earlier, a separate jury in the case against the son, Hamid Hayat, also signaled that it was having problems with at least part of the government case. Late Friday, that jury sent U.S. District Judge Garland E.

The jury deliberating the case of a Lodi man accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan asked Thursday to review the five-hour videotaped interrogation by FBI agents that prosecutors call a confession and defense attorneys say is "meaningless" intimidation. U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell ordered the entire videotape replayed in open court on Monday, ensuring that the jury for 23-year-old Pakistani American Hamid Hayat will not reach a verdict until later next week.

Is Hamid Hayat a potential killer programmed at a Pakistan terrorist camp to attack his fellow Americans? Or is he a frail young man, desperate for approval, goaded into making false boasts by an older, more sophisticated FBI informant?

The federal terrorism case against a Pakistani American and his father, which began with FBI claims that a Central Valley farm town harbored an Al Qaeda cell, wrapped up Tuesday with defense attorneys confidently predicting an acquittal. Final arguments begin today in the trial of Hamid Hayat, 23, a junior high dropout from Lodi, Calif., accused of attending a terrorism training camp in Pakistan in late 2003 and then lying about it to the FBI.