Reducing the jury from 12 to 6 increases the odds of a unanimous conviction.
From the article: The bailiff, after spinning the drum, opened it to Rittenhouse, and he carefully selected six slips of paper one-by-one, eliminating those six and leaving 12 now-official jurors.
11 posted on 11/16/2021 12:03:21 PM PST by Sans-Culotte
(11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)