The verdict is in, though as I write this we don’t yet know what it is.
As Jazz pointed out this morning, the duration of the deliberations is often a sign of how the jury is feeling. Deliberations started yesterday at 3:30 pm so they only had about an hour before the trial wrapped up for the day. The fact that they are back with a verdict today before lunch may indicate that they found this to be an open and shut case. And yet…
It would be extremely disappointing if the jury voted to acquit after this trial because it was pretty one-sided. There were four days of testimony and all but a couple hours of that were the prosecution. The prosecution’s strongest witness, Zoe Kestal, testified to seeing Hunter smoke crack every 20 minutes in 2018. She testified that when she saw him in September of 2018, after his brief stint in rehab in August, he was still smoking…
