A Denver District Court jury returned a split verdict in the case against the Rev. Harold Hicks on Thursday after deliberating for 12 hours.
Hicks was accused of victimizing two parishioners from Mount Carmel Community Baptist Church in a mortgage-fraud scheme.
He was acquitted of seven out of 10 charges, including five counts of theft and two counts of forgery.
The jurors found him guilty of three forgery counts related to loan documents that were filled out for surrogate buyers.
Prosecutors accused Hicks of targeting parishioners who had good credit ratings and persuading them to become surrogate buyers for Denver properties. They say he submitted fraudulent mortgage applications inflating the incomes of surrogates to secure the loans.
Judge Robert L. McGahey set a sentencing date for Sept. 23. Hicks could get probation or a maximum of nine years in prison.
