The jury ended the first day of weighing testimony after 4 1/2 hours
The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York ended their first day without a verdict after 4 ½ hours of deliberations. In a conversation with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell said that while it’s not easy to predict how long it could take the 12 members of the jury to reach a verdict, “I can tell you definitely about the length of jury deliberations, they will be longer than the shortest deliberations on record, and they will be shorter than the longest.”
“The shortest deliberation on record was in 2004, where a jury heard testimony about this person who was charged with cultivating 23 marijuana plants,” Cordell said. “The jury went in the deliberation room and came out after 60 seconds. That is the shortest jury deliberation, and they acquitted.”
“The longest is in the 1990s in LA, in federal court, where there was a six-month jury trial. The jury deliberated four and a half months. So I can tell you, it will be longer than the 60 seconds, and it’ll be shorter than the four and a half months. That’s about all we can say about jury deliberations,” she added.
