Day 24 (Day 20 since testimony began, Day 6 of deliberations) Danny Masterson retrial
After the jury returned to deliberations after the readback, there was only a short amount of time for them to talk things over before their escorts showed up to take them out of the building.
On a day when we admitted in the morning to having some optimism about verdicts coming in, some of that optimism is slipping away.
Once again, defense attorney Philip Cohen's "degrees of guilt" chart was apparently a hit with this jury, like the last one, and they had to be told that they weren't going to have a copy of it to look at.
And with today's readback, we learn that once again the jury appears to be focused on the different ways that Jane Doe 3 described the November 2001 incident in a 2017 interview with Det. Reyes in Austin, and the way she described it on the witness stand during this retrial.
If the jury is still hung up on Jane Doe 3's testimony nearly a week after the video playback, does that mean they have already decided on the other two victims? We don't know.
We keep hearing from people the suggestion that if they are hung up on Jane Doe 3, perhaps they have settled on matters with Jane Doe 1 and 2 because of the numerical progression.
But in fact, Jane Doe 3 was the first of the three victims to testify.
Is the jury considering them in chronological order? Numerical order? Do they have the other two solved, or are they hung up on all three?
We just don't know.
If they can't come up with something tomorrow, however, we're going into the Memorial Day weekend, and Judge Olmedo had the trial scheduled for two days off, Monday and Tuesday.
The jury would then come back Wednesday, May 31, and the evidentiary hearing scheduled for that day would have to be moved back.
What a mess.
Perhaps this jury can figure something out tomorrow and spare us that holiday hassle.
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Oh man! The waiting is killing us all! Seriously, I'm so nervous with all this waiting. And, Tony, you must want to go home! Thank you for sticking it out with us! We appreciate you!!! NOW JURY - Find a guilty verdict before the holiday! We'll all sleep much better and Tony can sleep in his own bed at home.
I am praying that someone will realize that the chart is NOT evidence! I can’t believe that they do not understand that regardless of anything else that happened the act itself is the only thing that matters, and if you are told no, that’s rape. So sad if that is what the hang up is.