(Bloomberg) -- One of Steve Bannon’s former codefendants accused of misusing donations intended to pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border has overcome federal charges after a judge declared a mistrial.

U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres granted the mistrial on Tuesday in Manhattan after lawyers for Timothy Shea complained about the conduct of the jury, which had been deadlocked. The charges included conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

Prosecutors said they would retry the case.

Shea’s lawyer, John Meringolo, asked for a mistrial in a June 3 letter to Torres, saying that notes handed to the judge by the jury improperly made public the jurors’ apparent political divide, with 11 jurors pitted against one whom they wanted removed. The attorney claimed Torres put “improper and unreasonable pressure” on the singled-out juror to go along with the majority.

The 11 jurors complained the lone holdout had accused the rest of the panel of being liberals.

Taking the politically charged case to trial was a gamble for Shea who found himself the only defendant left in the case. Two other men, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty in April, admitting they conspired to receive money from the donations despite telling the public that all the money would go to building a wall.

Bannon, the highest-profile defendant and a one-time strategist to former President Donald Trump, dodged the trial after being pardoned on the last day of Trump’s term in office in January 2021.

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