The jury is still deliberating in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas. A reader who has been in the courtroom for the trial writes in response to my comments last night in “Approaching a verdict.” I thought that the jury was probably leaning toward convictions and that a problematic juror who prompted the judge’s Allen charge was a holdout. Our reader’s observations play off the Dallas Morning News account of yesterday’s proceedings. Our reader seems to misconstrue my post but to support my hunches. Her message in any event provides an interesting eyewitness report:
Why do you think the prosecutor
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