Federal judge says 11 jurors can deliberate fate of four men accused of trying to bomb Bronx synagogues

A federal judge refused to grant a mistrial this morning in the case of four men accused of trying to bomb two Bronx synagogues after removing a juror.

The jury deliberating the bombing case was dismissed early for the weekend last Friday when a document that was never entered into evidence was found in a juror's notebook.

Manhattan federal Judge Colleen McMahon excused a juror who said she could not be fair and said the panel could deliberate with 11 members.

Juror No. 1, a woman, was let go and not replaced with an alternate.

She refused to talk with reporters as she left the building.

McMahon had ripped prosecutors last week for accidentally including the three-page report in Juror No. 1's binder of transcribed FBI wiretaps.

The transcript was of a conversation between a defendant and his dad. Its contents were not revealed.

Individual juror questioning also revealed that all 12 were given transcripts of another recording that prosecutors hadn't put into evidence.

The defendants -- James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen -- are all accused of trying to hatch a plan to bomb two synagogues in Riverdale.

The defense has said the government entrapped their clients.

The jury will continue their fourth day of deliberations this afternoon.