Oh come on bvw..I know you know better than that. His comments were given after finding out new, albeit unconfirmed revelations. Think about how many jurors come out of the trial, only to find out things that were kept from them...that were negative to the defendant, victim or witnesses.. (IE:prior convictions kept secret) this is just another example of facing reality after their jobs were done.
Too quick, and no doubt, no dread, no allowance -- a prejudiced mindset, one hard to so form in the week since.
If not that, then a very gullible individual all to ready to hug the media line, the mob's view ... once again in that case back to a prejudicial mindset at the start of the trial as that was the mob's view.