The Virginia jury deliberating the fate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort left the courthouse Monday without delivering a verdict.
The jury deliberated until about 6:15 p.m. ET Monday, raising speculation that they were close to a verdict since they typically end the day a bit earlier. However, the jurors will return Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. ET for their fourth day of deliberation.
Deliberations in the case began Thursday morning. The jury laid off around 5 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, the jurors ended the day with a series of four questions for the judge. On Friday, they broke early because a juror had an event to attend.
After taking the weekend off, the jury resumed deliberations Monday shortly after 9:3o a.m. ET.
Manafort faces multiple counts of bank fraud and tax fraud in the federal criminal case, the first case to go to trial in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
“Deliberate” is an interesting word. Does it mean the opposite of “liberate?”
If they want to stay late, they think they’re close. Only reason they’d think they’re close is if they’ve been going through the charges one by one and they’re close to the last one.
Or, of course, it could mean some totally other off the wall thing because we have no more information from what little they say than a Roman priest staring at chicken guts.
This would be my speculation also.
It sounds like they are looking carefully at the evidence for each count. That means the jury isn’t hung. It also means they have probably handled most of the charges and think they care finish tonight or tomorrow morning. They want to go home.
Letting the traffic clear