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Their impanelment to this moment, and i dont think it would be inappropriate given all that has transpired in the public gam gallery and outside courthouse in this case for the court to inquire affirmative at least once of this jury panel. having said, that im going to sit down. >> lets go ahead and check the evidence. the proposed verdict forms should be somewhere in the well, as well as the -- im sorry, theyre right here. and lets do that so we can get the evidence to the panel. >> i just want...

Made thereto. although i dont think its necessary, we will again make the motions for mistrial made during the case. >> let us check the evidence, then. it is this courts practice with firearms not to send out the live monica lewinski or the weapon itself, nor the videos. jurors dont have the ability to play the videos -- well, the courts position is if theres a request to replay video, it needs to be done with the formalities of the court and they can request that and we do that here. >> your h...

Intention upon consideration of their words, their conduct, what did they do out there? their demeanor, their motive, and other circumstances. so when you look at each defendant separately, because thats what youre going to do. youre going to get three separate verdict forms. when you look at mr. brian, what were his words? what was his conduct, whats his motive? what were the circumstances there for mr. brian? where what were they for travis mcmichael or greg mcmichael? so now were going to tal...

Reached very, very quickly in relative terms. three months of testimony and thousands of exhibits. 165 counts and they deliberated for all of about 12 or 13 hours. before finally informing the court they had reached a verdict. as part of the process of reaching that verdict, they had to fill out some 659 pages of verdict forms. so it could be that they already had the verdict going into today, their second day of deliberations. >> and were looking at live shots inside the courtroom as were waiti...

Ruling otherwise. they began ruling yesterday morning it could be that they spent this morning here in centennial colorado filling out the verdict forms. they keim to this decision by all appearances very quickly. >> during the course of this we know that holmes in jail has exhibited bizarre behavior. can you tell us more about that? >> yeah and the jury saw videotape of that walking into walls, smearing himself with feces, this was talked about in the closing argument particularly early on the ...

>> all right. we have verdicts in counts two, three, four and five. i have the verdict form in count one, there are no markings on it. but i will provide it to the clerk for the record. and based on the jurys inability to reach a verdict as to count one, i will declare that mistried, and we will talk about how we will proceed with regard to that in a moment. the other verdict forms are in order. ill give them to the clerk for publishing. >> in the fourth judicial district, in case number 16, 201...

>> jurors in the blagojevich trial could be close to wrapping up deliberations, theyre asking the judge for information on filling out the verdict form. we do expect a live report from chicago on what could be a very big breaking story in a couple of minutes. you know theyve been deadlocked, theyve been struggling, theyve asked the judge for a lot of additional information and now were getting word they are moving closer. theyve helped for ask -- theyve asked for help with the verdict forms. if ...

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