13 hours and counting...By Graham Winch
updated 7:24 PM EDT, Tue May 07, 2013
The nation’s attention is focused on the Maricopa County, Arizona, courthouse as the jury deliberates on a verdict in the Jodi Arias trial.
The jury has been deliberating for more than 13 hours now.
So how will the public be notified when the jury has a verdict?
If there is a verdict, the jurors will call the judge's bailiff by telephone. The court will then notify all of the interested parties, including Arias, family members, and the attorneys.
Arias will be brought into the courtroom from the holding cell at the courthouse, where she is being held during deliberations.
Once all of the interested parties are in the courthouse and the judge is on the bench, the jury will be brought in and Clerk of Court Christina McCain will read the verdict.
The public should be notified 30 to 60 minutes before the verdict is read.
What if the jury has a question?
All of the interested parties must be present in person or by telephone for jury questions. The jury has not asked the court any questions so far.
In the meantime, what are the jurors are up?
The jurors are likely reviewing the jury instructions, the evidence and the testimony. They have the notes they took during the trial, and most of the exhibits that were admitted into evidence.
Judge Sherry Stephens has allowed the jurors to create their own schedule. The jurors chose to deliberate between noon ET and 7:30 ET Monday through Friday.
They can also choose to break for lunch if they want, or they can chose to deliberate through lunch.
Jurors are responsible for feeding themselves, because the county does not pay for their lunch. The county provided them menus to order food in, and some jurors may have brought their lunch.
A couple of the jurors are believed to be smokers, so they may need to take a smoke break every once in and a while.
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