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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with the above posters about letting the jury process play out! I hope they are taking it seriously. Even if it's an immediate Guilty vote by all 12 (unlikely IMO, probably at least a few undecideds even if they ultimately go guilty), they will still probably want to talk through all the evidence to make sure each of the elements are met beyond a reasonable doubt.

And if you do get some of the jurors who want to really discuss things, the last thing that helps is trying to rush the process along. That just gets people more stubborn.

Having multiple paths to finding proof beyond a reasonable doubt is helpful because there will be some pieces of evidence that just don't, for whatever reason, resonate with some jurors. But if they can look to other things that will help. Not everyone has to be convinced because of the same evidence.

What's really hard to see here is a unanimous NG verdict. If I were on that jury I think I would holdout for guilty against even an 11-1 NG pressure vote. I think you're more likely to get a hung jury than all NG. And on a second trial Brendan, because he testified, is SUPER locked in.[/quote]

Agree.  Even on this thread, someone said that the blood splatter evidence meant nothing to them and the evidence that the text messages on fetlife seemed like they were written by Juliana instead of Christine based on syntax etc.   And that poster was frustrated that they didn't bring in a linguistics expert to testify that the writer was likely not a person whose first language was English.  Even though to most of the rest of us, yes that was important info, but was so easy to explain away by someone faking that writing style, etc, whereas the blood splatter evidence was pretty hard to refute.  But to that poster, the blood splatter stuff just didn't resonate.  On the jury, there could easily be one or two jurors like that- some of the most damning evidence just doesn't resonate and they need to look at other angles, and that will take discussion.

Also, in my experience on a jury, these people are not true crime junkies or people who are super intelligent or people who even really care.  Some of these people aren't smart, or they're very prejudiced against this or that, or they want to argue and enjoy being oppositional and enjoy being that one lone holdout to a verdict.  But to get all 12 to say not guilty I think in this case is impossible.  I bet eventually, there will be a clear majority that says guilty, and if there are a couple of hold outs who just think Christine was a cheater and Joe was a deviant and they deserved it and think BB may have done it but "seems like a good guy" and will refuse to say guilty- those people will get worn down when the judge continues to send them back to deliberate longer if they attempt to say they are a hung jury.  And they'll stop caring and they'll vote guilty.  Some people really just don't care much and they want the trial to be over so they can go back to work and are happy to just vote what everyone else is voting.  I've been on 3 juries and it's amazing the people who you find on them. [/quote]

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