Manafort trial Day 14: Jury expected to head home without verdict

[Honeycombe8]

26. I've been on several juries. There's not a whole lot of talking, except...

except when going out to lunch or during lunch. At least it was for us. In the room, there's a hesitancy to be too chit chatty.

But at one trial, in the room, we were all seated around the huge conference table, except for one man, who stood and sat in one corner, away from the table and away from us. I and others would ask him if he wanted to join us at the table. He said no, he was fine where he was. He stayed there the whole time. He rarely spoke, but did say a thing or two a couple of times. Strange. We were unanimous in our verdict, though. It was a white collar crime case. Guilty. Counterfeiting money, so it was a pretty sure thing. But we wanted to be sure, since we knew he'd be going to prison. The judge was angry that we were taking so long. Frankly, we had to take that long because the prosecutor was terrible at presenting his case.