CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield August 21, 2015 16:25:00
Issues to grapple with. >> this was a five-week trial which is not terribly long, not terribly short for this kind of charge. if they've only been deliberating for a couple days -- i love when you say "allen charge." it's what they used to call dynamite charge. where they tried to dynamite those jurors back into action. it works, weirdly enough it works very often and then it doesn't at times as well. and the fear is when you force a jury back into a room to make a decision they may change their mind, they may go with a guilty verdict. they may just get fatigued and say i think the judge just ...