By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
FBI agent Hal Neilson is no longer in trouble.
Federal prosecutor Richard Bourgeois on Wednesday dismissed three remaining counts the jury deadlocked on on Nov. 20, the Northeast Mississippi Journal reported.
The prosecutor indicated that U.S. can no longer “meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Neilson, 49, of Oxford, Miss., was indicted Jan. 13 on five counts that he lied about his financial interests in the Oxford FBI building at 2106 University Ave., where he worked, the Journal reported.
“I am so happy to hear that,” said jury foreman Don Lambert of Booneville, Miss.
“Personally, I did not see enough evidence to convict him,” said Lambert, a resource officer for the Booneville schools, the paper reported.
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