I have only been on a jury twice, one rape case and one murder case. On both occasions, the prosecutor added other charges in addition to the primary charge. The most charges in either case was only eight. In both trials we took four days to deliberate and we did not vote guilty on all charges. How much time would you anticipate for a 34 count indictment in a trial that lasted eight days?
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I was on a case where a young man was charged with domestic battery against an elder. A single felony charge.
We took two days to deliberate. It was very clean, but the delineation between mutual conflict and battery came down to about four seconds of disengagement. They scuffled, young man had walked a car’s length away, the old man (with one hand) said something, and the young man returned and pegged grandpa in the face.
By walking away, it met the criteria that the conflict was over and any further engagement would be a separate incident.
Two days over something that was very clear cut from a legal perspective. There’s no way they deliberated for two days in good faith and came to a conclusion here.