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Breaking late lunch Libby trial news, not
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 03/01/2007 - 15:07We have now learned that there is a flood in the court cafeteria. Will this interfere with the cookies that the cafeteria has been sending up everyday? If so, would that make a verdict more, or less likely? It isn’t clear. People continue to joke around, to try and find anything to pass the time. The verdict is now predicted to come out during Anna Nicole Smith’s funeral during a down pour in Washington.
Product Placement in Jury Requests
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 03/01/2007 - 10:51It has now come out that yesterday at around 3:30 in the afternoon, the jury sent another request for supplies: "We would like another big Post-it pad. The large one for the easel."
Final day at the Courthouse
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 03/01/2007 - 09:53Well, this is it, my final day at the courthouse during the Libby deliberations. I don’t know if this will be the day that the jury reaches a verdict. I would love it to be, but I have my doubts. So, stepping away from the reporting on minutiae and the speculation about what it means, let me return to some personal thoughts about the bigger picture.
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February 28th
The jurors have left the building
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 17:51The word has come down at around 4:45 that the jurors have left the building. There are lots of speculations about what it could mean. They’ve reached a decision and everyone wants to go home get a good night’s rest and come in with verdict clothes tomorrow. They are close and have decided to go home and sleep on it. They have reached an impasse and are going home to cool off. Perhaps there is a special sale at a local store, or they are having early happy hour for jurors at a local bar.
Strike that: It is now reported that Judge Walton had a five o'clock meeting and sent them home early.
Meanwhile, we’ve been told that they will be shutting down power in the building at midnight for maintenance. Power should be back by 3 AM, or maybe 10 AM, depending on what happens.
Lunch at the Libby Trial, No News
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 15:39After this morning’s big non-event, there wasn’t much Libby related stuff to talk about during lunch. The discussion at the table I was eating at veered from talking about judges and their clerks to some journalists talking about the old days of the AP versus UPI and what it was like trying to submit stories from Saigon over painfully slow wires.
