It was two weeks worth of trial and after deliberation, Sheridan was one juror short from vindication for the lawsuit she filed on Desperate Housewives' creator Marc Cherry.

With no victory and no $5.7 million payout from what she allegedly call wrongful termination from the show, Nicollette Sheridan walked out of the court looking sullen.

After jurors said they were deadlock as to whether Sheridan's character was killed for creative purposes or retaliation, the judge declared mistrial for her wrongful-termination suit. Within the two-week trial, jurors were given a behind-the-scenes look of the soap which will end its 8th season this spring.

The jury's vote resulted in 8-4, in favor of Sheridan and just one jury short for the verdict in civil court. Sheridan claimed that Cherry hit her head and terminated her from the show after a disagreement between the two, but Cherry defended that he gave her a "tap" for direction.

Last week, Cherry was dismissed from the battery charge against him. The case was wounded in Sheridan's part but she remains hopeful that the wrongful termination charges would be in favor with her.

As she confidently walked in court in a tailored suit paired with a positive vibe carved on her face, the opposite could be said when she walked out of the courthouse.

Lawyer's from both sides expects a retrial on the case which could involve millions of dollars. And although much of the trial involves the timing when Sheridan's character was killed off from the show, ten witnesses testified that the decision to dismiss her from the show was made prior to the on-set incident.

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