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Jury sent home without reaching a verdict after a day of deliberations in Philly police perjury trial

Detectives Martin Devlin, Frank Jastrzembski, and Manuel Santiago are charged with lying under oath about their 1991 investigation of the rape and murder of 77-year-old Louise Talley in Nicetown.

Retired Philadelphia homicide detective Martin Devlin, seen here inside the Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice on March 19, is awaiting a verdict in his perjury trial along with retired detectives Manuel Santiago and Frank Jastrzembski.
Retired Philadelphia homicide detective Martin Devlin, seen here inside the Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice on March 19, is awaiting a verdict in his perjury trial along with retired detectives Manuel Santiago and Frank Jastrzembski.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer