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The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14.

>> i mean, the prosecutor was able to point out her mistakes, but she also got very emotional and expressed remorse, the sorrow. and then is, again, a case they don't have to prove intent. what stands out more to a jury, the pointing out what she did wrong or the emotional response it might evoke from the jurors themselves? >> emotional response. look, laura, these are split second decisions that occurred. there's no intent that this officer -- and by the way, we all know being a police officer is a really difficult job. everybody knows that, and in all my years as a jury consultant, juries re...

They herd her yelling taser, taser, taser, perhaps jurors are believing kim potter's testimony and wanting to see how easy would it be to make that kind of mistake. it seems concerning to me that they did not accept kim potter's own words. she pretty much admitted her conduct was unreasonable. we saw that she failed to render aid to him, that she failed to contact the other police officers, call 911, do those things that an officer, particularly one with 26 years of experience would be expected to do. i thought the prosecution had laid out a pretty effective case, at least for the second degre...

>> yeah, i'm getting that sense. good evening, first of all, and yeah, i'm a little worried about the question from the jurors. we know the judge has the opportunity, if he chooses to do so to bring them in and give them an allen charge. you know, he could encourage them to continue to deliberate telling them to re-examine their opinions, to re-examine the evidence that's been presented, but given that we are so close to the christmas holiday and given that they've already been deliberating for two days suggests that there probably is, you know, a lack of consensus in that jury deliberation ro...

There's no intent that this officer -- and by the way, we all know being a police officer is a really difficult job. everybody knows that, and in all my years as a jury consultant, juries really want to give the benefit of the doubt to police officers because their job is so difficult, but the fact that that police officer got on that witness stand and started crying, those were not crocodile tears. those were the real deal. i think that's going to weigh real heavily on the jury. there are some jurors that have a real -- the charge in this case is not murder. it's manslaughter. was it negligen...