What Hornsby wrote could explain why they had a side bar rather than just read the whole note in open court. I don't know though.

Yes sometime there are those anal types.

8:27 p.m.
The jury has finished their meal and continues deliberating, court PIO says.

7:50 p.m.
Court is in recess until 8:15 p.m. The jury is still deliberating.

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I certainly like the thought of something on the note making Guy unhappy. And BDLR's smiling could have been a feint; a bluff.

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I did post the surveillance pic from Rumpole's mole...


There's yer problem

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Unless there was something on the note about the jury finding BDLR more of a stud then John Guy.

If that is the case the jury needs to be checked to make sure they are mentally okay before they continue.

at Rumpole's Flying Circus-Trial Jury!

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I didn't see Sax's tweet posted. Could have missed it, of course. But here it is (again):

I think she speaks for many of us:

I have Fox on in another room and only caught part of it. That is why I didn't post about it immediately since I didn't catch it all.

If that's the case, they need to be locked up right away for their own and public safety!

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I'm think it's time to go to professional jurors. I've avoided discussing the case outside internet boards, but whenever I do, I'm taken back by those who feel George was wrong on some level...he should've stayed in the car...I don't like guns, he shouldn't have had a gun...I can't decide, sometimes I agree with defense, then state. I just imagine if similar minds are on the jury. With all the explanation about self defense, I can't understand how there could be any question George acted in self defense.

Local or national? I'll try to track it down.

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National.

This is not an engineer's mentality. An engineer would define all assumptions up-front, and would go for the most efficient process - that is: answer self-defense question first, before bothering with the harder question of whether the State proved its case.

The go-through-the-jury-questions-front-to-back-and-page-by-page approach is more of a lawyer's mentality. (There are two jurors who would potentially evince a lawyer's mentality.)

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I think 2nd degree murder if off the table. Not guilty. Now it's manslaughter they are working on. Scary.

Self defense applies to that too.

I'll check INTERnational

(Actually it is national beamed worldwide (no ads) )

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