CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Four Philadelphia Inquirer reporters were fined $1,000 each Thursday, and three of them were also ordered to perform community service, for violating a judge's order not to contact or identify jurors after the sensational trial of a rabbi charged with murder.

The case involved Rabbi Fred J. Neulander, who was accused of arranging his wife's killing. It ended in a mistrial in November after the jury deadlocked. He is awaiting a retrial.

The four reporters were found in contempt by a judge Monday after their bylines appeared on a post-trial story exploring whether the jury forewoman actually lived in Pennsylvania rather than New Jersey, where the trial took place.

George Anastasia, Joseph Gambardello, Emilie Lounsberry and Dwight Ott could have gotten up six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Lawyers for the reporters indicated they will appeal.

Anastasia was ordered to perform five days of community service, while Ott and Lounsberry were each given 10 days. They will be assigned to a work detail, such as picking up trash.

Gambardello was only fined because there was no evidence he contacted a juror.

In April, the New Jersey Supreme Court backed up the judge in the case, Linda G. Baxter, in ruling that she had the authority to bar reporters from contacting jurors until an actual verdict was reached. But the high court said she could not prohibit the media from publishing the names of the jurors.

However, prosecutors argued that because the order regarding the jurors' names was in effect at the time the reporters violated it, they should still be held in contempt.

Jeffrey Zucker, a lawyer for Neulander, said the ruling should instill confidence in potential jurors. "It allows jurors to believe it when there's a court order that they will not be contacted by the media," he said.

Earlier, Carol Saline, a writer for Philadelphia Magazine, was fined $1,000 for approaching a Neulander juror before deliberations ended.