Gee, from the media coverage, I was pretty sure Scott Peterson was guilty, but the jury seems slow in coming back. For some reason not apparent to the reporters covering the trial, the jury was recalled to the courtroom and instructed on the importance of taking other jurors’ views into account. Details here. Obviously, the implication is that some juror(s) might support acquittal. This will teach me not to form conclusions about just results in criminal cases without having heard any of the evidence.
In other California jury deadlock news, the Sacramento Bee reports that a trial judge was excoriated in an opinion for delivering an erroneous dynamite charge in a capital case. Details here.
Jack Chin