[Merrick]

Actually, that’s the majority opinion, but VERY many people with experience here (for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-rDMjfD5lw) are saying it could VERY easily be the other way and they are leaning that way.

[Verginius Rufus]

On Fox yesterday evening they were saying both the defense attorney and the prosecutor knew the full statement (the judge only read part of it) so it seems indicative that it was the defense attorney wanting the holdout juror replaced.

Maybe the judge wasn't sure he would find an alternate juror who would vote "not guilty."