New York Times: “The jurors in the Derek Chauvin murder trial in Minneapolis deliberated in April for 10 hours. In 1995, a jury in the O.J. Simpson trial delivered a verdict in less than four hours. The jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse case has been talking for 23 hours – and counting. After three days, the seven women and five men who are deciding Rittenhouse’s fate in a Kenosha courtroom have yet to reach a consensus, a strikingly long deliberation that suggests the jurors may have clashed on the weighty decisions before them. Mark Richards, a lawyer for Rittenhouse, seemed confounded by the length of the deliberations after court broke for the day on Thursday.”
“‘They’re either working to get a consensus – maybe they’re dead-even split,’ Richards said of the jury as he left the courthouse. Throughout the building, there were few certainties, but much speculation. Richards said that when he looked at the faces of the jurors as they sat in the courtroom at the end of the day, he thought, ‘They’re six-six split.'”