Can you clarify please what “excusing” the jury means? Does it mean the jury was sent home and they are not needed at all any more? That their jury service is over?
Just “excused” for the day.
Here’s more just being reported by the LA Times...
The military judge, Lt. Col. David Jones, abruptly recessed the trial on Wednesday afternoon, instructing the attorneys to seek “other options.”
Jones initially set 8:30 a.m. Thursday to resume the trial. That was then readjusted to 1 p.m. Thirty minutes before the trial was to resume Thursday, Jones sent word that the jurors had been told that the next session would be 8:30 a.m. Friday.
Of the eight defendants, six have had their cases dismissed. One was acquitted.
The hearing officer at Wuterich’s preliminary hearing in 2007 said that he doubted that Wuterich would be convicted at court-martial. He cited problems that undercut other prosecutions: conflicting testimony from witnesses and poor forensics.