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My educated guess is that the verdict will be guilty on all counts. It is a certainty that the majority of the jurors would vote guilty (as 95% of the rest of America) so if there were any jurors favoring acquittal, the rest of the jurors would take days and days to wear them down.

I was on a murder trial myself a few years ago (as a juror) and within a couple of hours of reviewing the evidence, we took a poll and only one of the jurors did not vote guilty the first time around. It took us a couple more days to pound away at the evidence before that last juror finally came around. But no way were we just walking out of there without a fight to set a killer free just because we didn't have unanimous agreement at the get-go. If we had to fight for the guilty verdict for weeks or deadlock, that's what we would have done.

I think your analysis is absolutely right.