After declaring that they were at an impasse Thursday, Feb. 10 -- and after Superior Court Judge Griffin M. J. Bonini instructed them to take a three-day recess and resume deliberations today -- the jury in the trial of Pedro Carbajal remains deadlocked on four of the six counts facing the former Mountain View soccer coach.

However, the jury has reached a verdict on two of the six counts, a court clerk said at about 5 p.m. on Feb. 14. The decisions on those two counts, which were not disclosed, remain sealed and locked in a safe in Department 26 of the Santa Clara County Superior Court's Hall of Justice in San Jose.

Both the prosecution and the defense in this case -- which began in early January -- came to equally unsettling conclusions in their closing arguments about the events that led up to the accusations of rape and molestation facing Carbajal, who co-founded and coached the Amigos League, a soccer program for at-risk youth in Mountain View, before he was arrested in February 2009.

The jury went into the weekend at an impasse.

The jury has been deliberating since those closing arguments concluded, shortly before noon on Feb. 8. The jurors are charged with deciding whether to find Carbajal guilty of molesting and sexually assaulting his three young nieces over the course of several years, between 2000 and 2005.

In his closing argument, Dan Fehderau, deputy district attorney for Santa Clara County, maintained that Carbajal was guilty of all the charges against him -- including two counts of sexual assault on a child; two counts engaging in a lewd and lascivious act on a child by force or through fear; and two counts of engaging in a lewd and a lascivious act on a child.

Defense lawyer Darby Williams insisted that the jury find her client not guilty on all charges -- attributing the accusations to a small but weighty lie, uttered two years ago, that snowballed into an impossibly tangled web of lies and has perhaps even resulted in false memories.

The jury is scheduled to resume deliberation on Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 9:30 a.m.

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