Jury was leaning toward conviction

The jury's 10-2 split was in favor of conviction, a court spokesman said. On the first ballot, the vote was only four for guilty. Then more jurors moved toward conviction. Apparently three jurors changed their vote from not guilty to guilty after the judge issued revised instructions, following the first announcement of an impasse. The district attorney would have had a much tougher call to make on whether to retry if the jury had hung 7 to 5.

Comments

[Michael]

Not too bad. Only two out of twelve jurors were idiots. Considering that about 40% of Americans still believe Saddam had something to do with 9/11 and about half don't believe in evolution, two out of twelve ain't bad.

[get him next time]

Retry him! They'll get him next time! It's clear that most of the jury was not fooled. Spector is guilty. The defense has shown their hand and it should be easier to convict him the second time around.

bye bye phil.