[Centaur]

Or someone is holding out for acquittal and the other jurors are getting annoyed yelling 'the doubt must be reasonable'. Then the judge rereads the definition which goes something like this:

'A reasonable doubt is one that causes a reasonably prudent person to pause or hesitate in acting in a manner of importance in his own life'.

That's always a good definition for the defense...'Would you hesitate before you bought a car from this slimy, lying so and so?' But then the judge adds that 'it isn't any doubt or one to avoid an unpleasant decision. It must clearly arise from the evidence or lack thereof'.

Sometimes if there are hold outs for acquittal, the majority asks for that reread and then hammers the minority that their doubt is unreasonable. Just my experience.

[snarkytart]

I think they’re are definitely one or two clinging onto the chart the defense showed them at closing..see my post above for the chart the jurors were shown.

They wanted the judge to define it to convince the NG holdouts that the defense chart is wrong. IMO

[snarkytart]

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