Something is off about the Manafort deliberations....

[hlthe2b]

18. Manafort faces 18 counts in the VA trial... Equally important, the judge, in trying to expedite

the trial, allowed the prosecutors to introduce more than 400 documents and exhibits, BUT (and this is a big BUT), he did not allow them to "publish" them--meaning they were largely not individually discussed during the trial. That's why the jury sent out a question/request last week that the exhibits/documents be "catalogued" to the charges.. something the judge denied as it would put him in a position of "adding to the prosecutor's case" to do so.

So, that means if the jury is taking all 18 charges seriously, they are having to look at all those documents and try to make sense of them, something that in longer trials, the prosecutors would have done for them.


SO, no. I am not yet prepared to believe the jury is headed towards deadlock, though of course there is always a worry. And it certainly doesn't argue toward likely acquittal