The jury declined to impose the death penalty, which requires unanimity, when one juror disclosed at the end of the trial that he could not impose the death penalty even though he had sworn previously that he could.
The council, however, declined to disclose information regarding a running total of penalty charges, saying that that could prejudice continuing discussions between itself and Cory.
Capello's side were handed a double reprieve as local referee Abdullah Abdou firstly declined to send Foster off, a surprising decision, and then Luis Fabiano lashed the resulting penalty yards over the bar.