...the Siegelman-Scrushy jury was given an Allen charge and told to go back to work. Mr. Scrushy noted yesterday evening that he'd been through this before, and (paraphrasing) he just knew it meant that in the end everyone would get to go home free and clear.
Only problem being that there was one juror who was replaced in his trial, and that juror turned out to be the lone strong holdout for conviction. In this case, I have a feeling there is probably more than one juror holding out either for acquittal or conviction, and that it it's going to be harder to reach a decision with more than a lone holdout.
As for what will happen--who knows? I've mentioned it enough before, but it seems that some people who have been seated on these types of juries of late are highly maleable when it comes to deciding things based strictly on the law, and seem to be rather more impressed with irrelevant appeals to emotion. And unctuous, self-righteous, multi-millionaire televangelists.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 23, 2006 10:11 AM