trial dwarfs that of the Cosby case. The jurors in Norristown have been sequestered for little more a week, not nearly nine months. The Simpson jury was the longest-sequestered jury in United States history and it occupied an entire floor of the hotel. Ms. Crawford said the frustrations of confinement could have played a part in the fact that the Simpson jury took only one day to reach its decision to acquit him. “You are the ones I am relying on.”As he asked them to begin their deliberations Monday evening, a week later, he ordered them dinner.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 22:07 UTC