Following a four-day trial, a DeKalb County jury took less than an hour to find no liability on the part of a tractor-trailer driver who slammed into a pickup truck at an intersection in southeast Georgia nearly 12 years ago, killing the other driver.

Lead defense lawyer Raymond Kurey of McMickle, Kurey & Branch in Alpharetta said there were no mediations and little settlement discussion until about 40 days before trial, when he sent an offer of settlement for $50,000, which was declined.