No verdict in phony Rockefeller case

BOSTON, June 10 (UPI) -- A jury in Boston ended Wednesday without reaching a decision in the case of a man claiming to be a Rockefeller who is charged with kidnapping his daughter.

On its third day of deliberations, the Suffolk Superior Court jury asked presiding Judge Frank Gaziano to explain what prosecutors had to prove when the defendant has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, The Boston Globe reported.

Gaziano told the panel prosecutors had to establish Clark Rockefeller understood the legal and moral consequences of abducting his 7-year-old daughter last summer. The incident happened after Rockefeller, 48, who authorities contend is a German con man named Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, went through a contentious divorce with his ex-wife, Sandra Boss.

Rockefeller also is accused of assault and battery on a social worker who was overseeing Rockefeller's visit with his daughter.

The defense does not dispute Rockefeller's German past but says he had been using the name Rockefeller for years when arrested.