UPDATE 2: Manafort jury suggests it 'cannot come to a consensus on a single count' [View all]

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Source: Washington Post



The jury in the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort indicated Tuesday it is split on at least one count -- sending a note asking the judge for instructions on how to proceed.

Around 11 a.m. of the panel's fourth day of deliberations, a note with a question came from the jury foreman, asking how jurors should fill out the verdict form "if we cannot come to a consensus on a single count," said U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III. The jury also asked what that would mean for the final verdict, Ellis said.

Though the meaning of the note wasn't entirely clear from its wording, the judge apparently took the panel's note to mean that they are stuck on a single count, not all of them.

Ellis said the note was "not an exceptional or unusual event in a jury trial," and he distributed to the lawyers an instruction he proposed giving to jurors. He said he first planned to read his proposed instruction, though he would later likely asked jurors whether they had reached a unanimous decision on other counts, and, if so, where they stood on those. The judge took a five minute recess to let the lawyers consider his proposed instruction.

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WaPo keeps changing the headline and text narrative. Have included the latest iteration. Obviously even DU readers were having issues with it.

I figured as much - with 18 charges, they have to agree on what to do with each one.

UPDATE 1 article/title -

Manafort jury indicates it can not reach a consensus on all counts

BREAKING: The jury in Paul Manafort's fraud case indicated in a note Tuesday that it is struggling to reach a unanimous verdict on all 18 tax- and bank-fraud charges.

The six-woman, six-man jury in the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort began its fourth day of deliberations on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III summoned jurors into the courtroom a little after 9:35 a.m. As occurs each morning, the clerk called out each juror's number, and each responded they were "here" or "present." The judge asked them to confirm that they had not done any independent research, then set them back to resume their work.

Manafort, who has worked on Republican presidential campaigns dating back to Gerald Ford, faces 18 bank fraud and tax charges. The trial in Alexandria, Va., began three weeks ago, and the jury began deliberating on Thursday.

Original article/title -

Manafort jury suggests they 'cannot come to a consensus on a single count'

By Washington Post Staff
August 21 at 11:50 AM

The jury in Paul Manafort's fraud case said it is split on at least one count. The panel of six men and six women indicated in a note Tuesday that it is struggling to reach a unanimous verdict on at least one of the 18 tax- and bank-fraud charges brought by the special counsel in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.