[ScaniaBoy]

A question for someone who is not steeped in US jurisprudence:

How could the judge decide to throw out the case after he had ordered the jury to start its deliberations?

And secondly, why ask the jury to come to a verdict despite the members of the jury obviously being aware that the case has been thrown out?

[humblegunner]

How could the judge decide to throw out the case after he had ordered the jury to start its deliberations?

Maybe Our Sarah started screeching at him and pissed him off.