Thursday, May 30, 2024

As we were waiting for the jury's 30-minute span to pass to fill out the verdict forms I had MSNBC open in one window, CNN in another, NYT's page in a third. I heard one MSNBC analyst, a former Manhattan Assistant D.A. explain convincingly that in all likelihood the jury had reached a mixed verdict. If the verdict had been all guilty or all not guilty they could just easily go down and check the column boxes, but if it was e.g. guilty on count I, not guilty on counts II and III, guilty on IV, etc. they would take their time to make sure they had gotten it right. And then the verdict comes in guilty on all counts. Over on NYT Haberman posted first, guilty on counts I-III, then guilty on counts through XI before Jonah Bromwich typed in guilty on all 34 counts.