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I'm not going to tell the entire thing or give more details but it is my belief and opinion that the jury was not always split that way, that it was a larger split amd that one member of the jury refused to deliberate from the getgo creating a known hung jury the entire time for the rest of them.
I also believe that a unanimous decision WAS made which was to collectively take a pause before talking to the media until a specified date and the foreperson had the media in his home the very next morning. Athe very same foreperson who one member of the media knew was in that role while deliberations were still going on. That same reporter who I also know without a shadow of a doubt expected a certain outcome in this trial to NOT be first degree murder seemed to know in advance that the jury was hanging on the sentence. The day before the hang came in and the day he reported (oops too early) the id of the foreperson, the usually rumpled crumpled unkempt dresser showed up at the courthouse in a crisp shirt and tie strutting the halls where we were all waiting like a peacock in a parade.
so many fishy things between that reporter and the foreperson. I checked out a theory I have with two of the jurors after the fact and let me say Its not one everyone in the know finds far fetched.
ps I know who the other 3 are who hung but it's up to the jurors to speak about it...I have a well formed theory though based on private conversations w jurors who aren't speaking out yet which I got from them. That 8-4split is not what it seems imo.
KCL, I don't understand where your thinking is headed when you say there was a larger split than 8 to 4. Do you mean it was more like 6 to 6 or more in the direction of 11 to 1?
Whenever I hear, and this isn't the first trial where I have heard this, that one particular juror just refuses to deliberate, the rest of the jury should let the judge know their name. That juror should be given jail time for every day the trial lasted for not doing his duty. That's just insane.