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Think that after this jury of seven men and five women who have been bussed in from a neighboring county, and they've been sequestered for the last of this trial -- do you think they're going to get this figured out? >> well, my experience is that, generally, the allen charge, when it's been this long, will not dynamite the jury. that's what we nickname it is the dynamite charge. because people are already entrenched. and you know, it's outlawed in many states, although it's still viable in the federal system. and i think, my personal opinion is it's somewhat coercive. but given the number of ...

Holdout juror, a single holdout juror or maybe a small group of holdout jurors, holding it as against the majority, who maybe have come to a different conclusion about guilt or innocence. and what we're hearing now is a report of a deadlocked jury. that's followed by what is traditionally called the dynamite charge, which is given by the judge to the jury, essentially saying, you have an obligation to go back, to deliberate in good faith and to try to reach a decision, because you're better equipped than any other jury will be and you might as well get the job done. so, they take one last shot...

Telling bill cosby? >> look, i'm telling you right now, you're hanging on by the skin of -- your bare knuckles and skin. this is the difference between life and death for him in the sense if he gets convicted, if the jurors convict him, he will get automatically remanded. he'll spend the rest of his life in prison. if he doesn't get convicted, it's entirely likely this case won't get retried. this is really the big game. this is it. if you're the legal team and i've been there so many times when a jury has been given -- the allen charge or the dynamite charge in a lot of jurisdictions, includi...

Juries come back like within an hour after getting the so-called allen or dynamite charge, with a verdict. so, the opposite can happen. that can be the one thing that gets that recallous trant juror or group of jurors to say you know something, maybe i should take a second look at my thoughts here, and you get a quick verdict then. so, it will be sort of a tense couple of hours now to come as people wonder whether we're going to have a verdict or not. >> absolutely. one high-profile attorney to help me out to another. mark geragos jumping on the line now. mark, what's your take on this? >> tha...

About, but do you see this? how often does a jury, when a judge says go back and give it another go, do they figure it out, or do you think this is more likely to be a mistrial than not? >> i agree with paul, it's probably like a split that's like 10-2, 11-1, 9-3, and they just can't get the last three to join with the majority. the so-called allen charge, what paul called the dynamite charge, that says look, guys, nobody can do this better than you, as paul said, and please do it one more time. often, though, it doesn't get you there. when you are sequestered and you have been there one day, ...