[stylin19a]

The jury...returned the guilty verdict an hour later

ok...5 minutes max coning and going to the jury room. 5 min max to sit down,sign your name and check guilty. 1 minute max to count the vote.

what in the heck were they doing for the other 49 minutes ?

[AnAmericanMother]

They had to elect a foreman -- that might take 10-15 minutes if they're feeling cranky.

They also probably had to read a fairly lengthy jury form with lesser-included offenses and all sorts of junk on it.

Add that to going around the room to let everybody have their say, you're talking about an hour even if everybody's mind is already made up.

And they may have sat around to get the time up to an hour just to avoid having the judge think they didn't deliberate.

One hour on a murder case is unbelievably fast.

What I want to know is, what's with the SECOND DEGREE?

[Dacus943]

"what in the heck were they doing for the other 49 minutes?"

They collectively were rotflmao at: “he was a battered spouse in fear for his own life.”

[namvolunteer]

In the first scandal of the Clinton Administration, Billy Dale waited three years to be proven innocent after the jury returned after 45 minutes. That’s about the minimum that it can do.

[namvolunteer]

In the first scandal of the Clinton Administration, Billy Dale waited three years to be proven innocent after the jury returned after 45 minutes. That’s about the minimum that it can do.