Jurors continue in Andersen trial

HOUSTON -- Jurors in Arthur Andersen LLP's obstruction of justice trial deliberated for a third day Saturday without reaching a verdict in the first criminal trial to emerge from Enron Corp.'s stunning collapse last year.

The jury had already discussed the five-week case for about 25 hours when they broke for the day Saturday. Deliberations were to resume today.

"We'll just have to see what happens," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Sam Buell, one of the prosecutors in the case.

Andersen is accused of shredding documents and deleting computer records related to Enron audits in October and November last year as the Securities and Exchange Commission embarked on a probe of the energy-trading company's complicated accounting practices.