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The core of the trial. mr. slagr's life also hangs in the balance when you look up to potentially 30 years in prison. you see this in a lot of trials. you see jurors struggling with that, taking their role seriously, looking at the evidence, debating each other and in this case, an 11-1 means that one person, obviously, has strong views and is standing up to the rest of them for the reasons they have reached. the other point that i would note, again, given what we have, which is not the whole story yet. >> right. >> is the foreperson referred to this person whose letter i just quoted is having...

>> you have been watching the judge in the case against former police officer michael slagr in the shooting death of walter scott talk to the courtroom here. here is the situation, from what we understand. the jury, as we know earlier this afternoon, came back and delivered a couple of notes to the judge indicating that they had had been potentially deadlocked, unable to reach a decision. the judge essentially sent them back in to continue deliberations. now you heard the judge read a couple of notes that he received from the jury foreperson saying that there is one juror on this case who says...

Month-long trial. longer of a 32, 33 days, including jury selection. the jury has been deliberating at this point over the span of three days for more than 16 hours. several options before them. whether to declare a guilty verdict on a murder charge, on voluntary manslaughter or acquittal. it appears at this point we are about to see the fourth option, a mistrial declared in this case. we are expecting that any second. the next step is whether the local prosecutor might decide to retry this case. we don't know if the local prosecutor will do that. but, again, michael slagr, the former north ch...

Back in and confirm that they are hopelessly deadlocked. ari melber has been standing by, chief legal correspondent at msnbc. about 20 minutes ago when we last spoke waiting for this moment you had this looks like the bottom of the ninth, towards a hung jury essentially. what is your sense now when you're listening to this? is that where we are headed? if we are, what happens next? >> in the case of manslaughter or murder regarding the shooting death of walter scott, we are in mistrial territory in all but technicalically confirming it. we are headed for a mistrial. what the judge just said fr...

Watching today is a case we are watching also. a jury not able to reach a decision in the trial of michael slagr. a former police officer recorded on cell phone video shooting walter scott after a traffic stop. coming up, we are going live to charleston with the latest in this very high profile case. in politics, donald trump's latest cabinet pick getting high marks from the left and right with general james dog mattis for secretary of defense. now details from 15 years ago is coming out so could this hurt mattis going forward? we are diving into it next. but when (my) back pain got bad, i c...