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>> george alex, what can the judge do if that happens? >> it's a possibility. it's less likely in the case where the jury has been sequestered. they're going to bond better than a mixed jury but they will be bonding and talking about their families because they couldn't talk about the case until now, until the deliberations. when you bond like that it's easier to reach a consensus. the judge brings them out. she sends them back and ask them to continue and if it seems like they're at an em pass she'll give them the allen charge or the dynamite charge. you can't give another after that. if they...

Jury could come back in and say we just can't reach a decision. she would then give a dynamite charge or an allen charge which in plain english is get back in there and keep working. try harder. we're not going to get a better jury than you. you've already come this far and keep trying. they go back in and bang heads and reach a resolution or something continues to hold out. if somebody described you based on race, gender, occupation. >> in two paragraphs. >> how much would that tell you about how that would look at a case like this and when you get back in the jury room certainly they are exp...

Would a hung jury look like? is it just one person that can say -- >> exactly. >> with six people, it's a little easier to come to a decircumstance isn't it? >> it is. a lot of juries come back initially and say we're stuck. we can't get through it. the judge gives them a dynamite charge or an allen charge, which is a nice language get back in there, keep deliberating, we're not going to get another jury better than you. so they're going to be pushed to try to get to a verdict. >> all right. there's been a lot of talk this week about whether the prosecution has been god or bad, but i think all...

You. i have sat for weeks upon weeks and i'm sorry to announce that especially for all the tv people who are sitting in 100 degrees waiting for a verdict, but it's not a perfect science. i will say this, suzanne, once the judge gives an alan charge, a dynamite charge or whatever your jurisdiction calls it, it usually doesn't last that long. i don't know if i recall any case, especially a first-degree murder case after conviction, whereby a judge has dynamited the jury and then waited weeks and weeks and weeks. so typically i got to be honest, it's usually only about a day. which is why if i we...

Have its privacy. it needs to be able to speak openly with one another. it needs to be able to conjure and convince and not fully badger one another. they have to be able to do this and trust they can just be amongst themselves in their discussion. so i don't even know whether we're talking about one holdout, a half and half panel or some other permutation of this. but i always find this a very fascinating science. i always find it, this is our jurisprudence playing out the way it should. the one thing i will tell you though, suzanne, is that i have seen a dynamite charge happen twice in the p...