If the reports we’ve heard about the situation in the jury room are accurate, it was not a question of ‘deciding on one’s own’. The problem appears to be following the judge’s instructions regarding the law and its meaning.
I am not a fan of anyone involved in this trial; but I am a fan of our legal and trial systems and want to see them operate correctly. We are given instructions by the judge when we are put on a jury. It’s essential that we follow them to the best of our ability. If we don’t, we don’t have a system at all; just ‘courts of opinion’.
This jury is dismissed. I fully expect there to be another one, and we can all argue over what they do, too.
I would just say if your going by what that defense attorney is saying I’d suggest you get your info elsewhere.
He is probably the last person that you’ll hear objective information from in this case.