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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact they deliberated for several hours tonight with no verdict says to me it’s going to be hung....[/quote]

Not sure if we know that for certain, but we know the verdict won’t be read tonight. Cahill doesn’t want to read it in the evening. It looks like others following the case also remember Cahill saying they would stop at 7 tonight. But it seems like they went until 8. Don’t know if that indicates anything. Maybe the proposed schedule just changed.

I think they would deliberate at least tomorrow. If they come back and say the jury can’t reach a verdict, the judge can ask them to deliberate more (would be up to judge depending on length of time and questions that are sent out, etc).

For those who didn’t follow jury selection, the jury pool started with a questionnaire. The questionnaire asked jurors to rate “How favorable or unfavorable are you about Black Lives Matter?” and “How favorable or unfavorable are you about Blues Lives Matter?” I don’t know what the exact calculus was to determine which jurors were removed from the jury pool on the basis of the questionnaire, but I would guess generally they looked for more neutral answers. Some in the jury pool who got to voir dire (questioning by the judge and counsel) did mention they or family had attended some protests, or were close to an officer (I would guess those extremely close like married were weeded out, I recall for example one juror talking about a longtime neighbor).

You can read the whole questionnaire here: https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/JurorQuestionnaire12222020.pdf

Another question that was asked of jurors was, paraphrasing here, “would you believe a police officer’s word more than a citizen.” If they stated that the police officer would be more credible, they were removed for cause.

I was surprised jury selection went as fast as it did. There was a bit of set back from the settlement announcement which led to two previously seated jurors being dismissed.

This jury is fairly young and diverse.

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