[MarDav]

“Only if she’s brain-dead stupid. “

I guess my question was more to the point: Could a juror have taken a cell phone into the deliberations room and texted a friend with an update?

[workerbee]

I’ve served on two juries and both were in the early ‘90s before cell phones were so commonplace. I’m speculating but I would guess cell phones would be disallowed in a jury deliberation room.

[tanknetter]

I guess my question was more to the point: Could a juror have taken a cell phone into the deliberations room and texted a friend with an update?

Jury rooms, or at least ones that are used for this high-profile a case, are supposed to be sound proofed, swept for bugs and shielded from/set up to detect any sort of EM transmission (in or out).