You are supposed to let juries decide the outcome, not dunk suspects under water on a pole till they confess like it's a Monty Python movie.
If it looks like the jury isn't going your way, you don't demonize the 'troublemaker' juror, and try to excise him from the jury by some crazy Third World lawless sham trickery, like this old crook tried to do.
Trial by jury. Find out about it.
The jury WAS going in favor of not guilty.
If things had been allowed to continue, the result would have been the same: a hung jury and mistrial; and we’d be right where we are now.