"taking any vote before deliberating ... should be strictly forbidden"
Obviously, this instruction would have to be given orally by the judge before sending them off, because this jury (we are told) voted on all the charges before they even bothered to read the jury instructions. I don't know if this is a widespread problem, but I find it disturbing in this case..... and the jury seems to be comprised of an exceptionally shallow, thoughtless group of people, from what we have learned thus far....