Free Republic

NORWALK -- "We're all passengers on this ship. God knows where it's going." Defense attorney Mickey Sherman made that observation at the start of jury selection in the Michael Skakel murder case in April - which seems like a millennium ago. Tuesday the ship was adrift, waiting for a jury's actions to end the voyage. Both sides in the case have played out their hands, and on the first day of deliberations Tuesday they lapsed into wait-and-see mode. For Sherman, that meant endless pacing and idle chitchat, and admitting to nervousness and nausea. "How's Michael coping?" he was asked. "A...