About 400 exhibits of evidence and 18 criminal charges

[berni_mccoy]

This Jury has shown it is considering the evidence.

Why did the jury stay late last night? Was it because they are close and are trying to convince one or two hold-outs? Not likely. More than likely, they were close to done on one section of evidence or one charge and didn't want to leave until they were done.

Let's consider approximately 400 exhibits of evidence, most of which are financial documents and electronic communications. There are 18 charges and the jury, based on their questions are likely sorting the evidence by charge.

If the jury does its job and puts in the due-diligence required, they are going to spend 10-15 minutes per exhibit. That's 80-100 hours of consideration. Let's say they break up the work between 2-3 people and have summary presentations between them to save time. That's 30-50 hours of deliberation.

They've spent 23 hours as of yesterday. That means they have at a minimum 7 hours to go and likely could go to the end of the week.

I'm going to say they won't be done until Thursday. It might be tomorrow. It might be Friday. But given everything, my money is on Thursday.

[eleny]

1. That's how I've been viewing it

I only served on one jury and we took a few hours to deliberate one instance of child abuse. A father battered his child. We took it very seriously.

If I was on this jury and went into the deliberations leaning guilty I'd want to go over everything carefully so that I was sure. And also so that nobody could say I participated in an arbitrary and capricious decision.

[Bradshaw3]

2. A former NJ prosecutor is on Ali saying this is not unusual

In fact, he said, he's had deliberations over this much evidence go two weeks.

[ffr]

3. I've been on several juries and I wish I had your confidence.

Every jury I have been on throws the law out and passes judgement based on how they would treat their children. Sometimes that means slapping their hand, but it also means slapping those who bring evidence against the defendant, for reasons that have nothing to do with the case and everything to do with personality and appearance.

It's going to take the few on the jury who are serious, to convince the stubborn lawless jurors to consider the facts and forget the tabloid rag nonsense. It's not about gut. It's about upholding the law against the accused.