PHOENIX (AP) - Jury deliberations have entered their fifth day at a trial against the owner of a now-closed Phoenix body donation facility accused of mishandling donated human remains.
Jurors resumed deliberations Tuesday morning in the civil case against Stephen Gore, owner of the Biological Resource Center of Arizona.
Gore is accused of deceiving donor families about how the remains would be used.
The relatives of more than 20 people whose remains were donated to Gore’s business alleged the facility claimed the bodies would be used for medical research, when in at least two cases it knew the remains would be sold for use in destructive military testing.
Gore denied the allegations.
Gore’s lawyer maintains the facility’s clients granted permission to dissect donated bodies.
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