A Miami attorney tried five federal cases in five different jurisdictions in the last 17 months, and to cap off his trial schedule, his high-profile client was acquitted Thursday in what local prosecutors and a Tallahassee judge called the longest jury deliberation the court ever had.

David Markus, joined by his Markus/Moss partner, Margot Moss, were among the attorneys for the defendant, Andrew Gillum, before U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in the two-week trial in which jurors deliberated over four days before returning an acquittal of lying to the FBI.