Update: No verdict today!!!!
From McCleans.ca website in Canada:
The jury departs
Mark Steyn June 29, 2007 14:32:59
The jurors have just left for the weekend, looking rather relaxed and chattering merrily. One of the three chaps was wearing shades, which seems a mite excessive for the elevator ride to the lobby, but no doubt he's conscious of his newfound celebrity.
As an alternative to the Brits' theory that they've already decided Black's guilty, there's the view of at least a couple of Chicagoans that the longer it goes on the better for the defence. The prosecution peddled a simple plot: a "crime" to "steal" $60 million from the "victims" (the shareholders). That's very straightforward. If the jury were going to buy it, they'd buy it quickly.
By comparison, the defence was complicated and nuanced and dealt in various shades of grey. The more time the jurors take, the more they're addressing complications, nuances and shades of grey: the defence's ground.
The jury is in
Mark Steyn June 28, 2007 19:17:27
Well, an hour ago we finally found who the jurors are. For over three months, we've watched a pool of jurors plus alternates, without knowing who are dead certs for the final scene and who are just understudies. This afternoon, a handful of us, using the ingenious journalistic technique of loafing around the elevators until they came out at the end of the day, finally saw the Dynamic Dozen: Three men, nine women. Some old favourites are there - the bubblegum blonde, the chronic sleeper, the middle-aged guy with the earring. I'm no jury reader, but one alleged expert told me the men were likely to be chippier about fat cats awarding themselves seven-figure bonuses. I dunno. The men were certainly more diligent note-takers and I wouldn't be surprised if one of their number hasn't emerged as foreman. But other than that, who knows? Is the narcolept sleeping through her own deliberations as she did so devotedly through Governor Thompson's?
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