If the Manafort jury does not come back with a verdict today...?

[kentuck]

...can we expect it to be a hung jury?

Is it possible that there could be one juror that would not vote guilty on any of the charges?

I think most folks are expecting them to finish up today?

If they don't finish soon, the Commander and Thief is going to stroke out.

[Agschmid]

1. We won't know until we know, I'm not making any guesses.

[Calista241]

2. I think it's a hung jury already.

Juries do not like to come back after a weekend. And who knows what they’ve seen in the past 72 hours. It’s almost impossible to stay off social media for that long for most people, and the President certainly hasn’t been quiet on the subject.

[PJMcK]

3. Have you ever served on a jury?

It’s not as cut and dried as you seem to think.

[jberryhill]

7. Isnt' it amazing how many experts there are on DU?

Length of deliberation means absofuckinlutely nothing. I can't believe all of the handwringing and bedwetting going on over this.

The more interesting question is what difference does it make whether Paul Manafort is found guilty of bank fraud and tax evasion or not. Why the deep personal investment in what happens to him in this particular case? In other words, the morning after he is found guilty (which in all probability he will be), what will have changed?

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Aren't There A Large Volume Of Charges Involved Here?

The fact that more than one charge is being considered seems to suggest that the deliberations have to be a bit protracted.

Or am i getting that wrong?

[jberryhill]

16. Yeah

But even if there were just a few, the amount of time that a jury takes to reach a result has zero - zero - correlation to the result that they reach.

[kentuck]

8. Sorry to offend all the experts here...

But I was only trying to get a conversation going about what I think a lot of people may be thinking about today. Some people are just not comfortable unless they are in attack mode, it seems?

[Recursion]

9. I've sat on a jury where we strung out deliberations because three of us hated our real jobs

and didn't want to go back yet. I've sat on another jury where we all hated the food and wanted it done as quickly as possible.

[True Dough]

12. This is what

the forefathers of America must have had in mind. Maybe as they were drafting the Constitution they said, "Hey, can you get a move on? These are really shitty sandwiches."

[Trust Buster]

4. Geez, the jury has to consider 18 highly technical separate charges. Chill.

[marylandblue]

5. Nobody knows, it's just a guess nt

[LuckyCharms]

6. My opinion...they have a lot of charges to go through...

I think they are probably just going through them one by one. I cannot see Manafort being found not guilty of all or most of the charges.

I would be worried about a hung jury if Manafort was just being prosecuted on one or two charges, but that is not the case here.

Hope my thinking on this is correct!

[still_one]

10. No. There is a lot of evidence they need to match up for each of the charges, and it will take time

to put that together.

[MineralMan]

11. If so, they'll deliberate again tomorrow.

Don't be too impatient.

[beachbum bob]

13. Will be no hung jury and I don't expect verdicts to be completed

Until Wednesday at the earliest. There are 20 charges, some are slam dunk, others take time to be decided..

[Jersey Devil]

14. We are just speculating, but if I had to guess I'd say their friendlyness to each other

indicates that they are not fighting with each other, which usually occurs with a hung jury. Friday they got together and asked the judge if they could go home early so one of the jurors could attend a personal function of some kind. I doubt they'd fall over backwards to be nice to each other if they were fighting about the verdict.