On the second day of jury deliberations, a Friday, the jury sent the court its sixth note, stating that "Jurors 4, 7 and 10 cannot continue further with this case." The court spoke with each of these three jurors individually and ascertained from all three, in essence, that they were concerned because they were not being paid by their employers for the days that they spent serving on the jury.
Notwithstanding numerous specific requests by defense counsel, the court...
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