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Once a jury starts deliberating, time is on the side of defendant.
Hung Jury? I think that would be considered a loss for Mueller and crew since the media had been beating the drum so loudly that it would be an “easy conviction”....
Di your job and then you can go.
CNN has two more days to convince the jurors or their families of the “correct” verdict. They didn’t get permission to release the names so they will use “freedom of the press” to release information from an anonymous source.
Two things are on the side of the defense...Mueller gave so much dry evidence and it was so poorly presented and Gates was guilty of the same crimes as Manafort and he was given a slap on the hand to turn on Manafort.
I thought a jury had to be sequestered till they were done?
Not that I am saying this could be a security leak but this could be a security leak on the progress of the deliberation efforts. This person will be hounded by everyone to speak of how it is going in there.
I am a trial lawyer. I don’t handle criminal cases but my colleagues tell me this means there is one or more jurors hanging tough-especially if it means coming back on Monday. Unlike civil, Feds need unanimous verdict. Looks promising for Manafort but jurors do relent to peer pressure.
Is this jury sequestered?
Looking better and better for Manafort.
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I predict Guilty on One Count of Something Ridiculous.
It’ll be a hung jury by the end of the day.
I still haven’t heard a good reason as to why a “tax and bank fraud” case is being prosecuted by Mueller’s team.
If Rudy was the AG, this would never have happened - no recusal, no Rosenstein, no Mueller...
Lol, too bad I am not on the jury. Acquit and you can go home. If not, stay here with me. Did I ever tell you about my uncle who loved beans? The musical fruit?
“...because one of the jurors has an event they would like to attend.”
Well, isn’t that just special.
They will find him guilty of something.
Not so good. The individual jurors will receive harassment and threats from lefties over the weekend.
They have 18 separate counts to work through.
FOX News and others claim that Manafort is due in a Wash DC court as soon as this trial is concluded. What is the second case about?
The Judge should seqeuster the jury in a hotel until the end of the trial. No TV, just free ppv movies.