Jurors in the Don Blankenship criminal case resumed deliberations this morning on the three felony allegations against the former Massey Energy CEO.

The eight women and four men returned to the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in downtown Charleston at about 9 a.m. They were starting their third full day of work after also deliberating for about an hour on Tuesday.

Families of the 29 miners who died in the 2010 explosion at Upper Big Branch and members of the media waited in the lobby outside the locked door of U.S. District Judge Irene Berger’s 5^th floor courtroom for word of any notes from the jury.