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, quote, issues or that there is some sort of tension there as well. there may be the view these are good, honest people and there s some attempt by them to have a dialogue and, yet, a frustration or perhaps even more than a frustration with the foreperson and the other jurors. to widen our lens, of course, this is not a typical case. the vast majority of cases involving homicide allegations
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 charleston police officer accused in this case still faces a federal civil rights trial early next year. as we wait for the jury to return to the courtroom, we are expecting the judge potentially to declare a mistrial on this. that s what the defense is asking for at this point. and we wait. any second now. you heard the judge say waiting for the jury to come
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case in charleston, south carolina. the case of michael slagr, the former police officer who is now on trial in the shooting death of walter scott. here is what we know. the judge read a couple of notes within the last 20 minutes or so from the foreperson of the jury indicating that there is one, one lone juror who is unable to reach a conclusion. unable rather to find guilt. some sort of a guilty verdict. we don t know what charge this is, for example, but the judge also read an excerpt of a note from that particular juror man or woman indicating they cannot change their mind. right now the clerk is back in that jury room where the jury is deliberating trying to find out more information on whether, in fact, as signals show this jury is, quote, hopelessly deadlocked. the judge has to make that determination if there is that determination that will result in a mistrial. let s go to gabe gutierrez. we are monitoring everything
considering a strong possibility at this point. thomas, i should point out, the jury had several options in this case, they could come back with a guilty verdict on the murder charge against michael slager, they can find him guilty of voluntary manslaughter or this could be acquittal. the fourth option is hung jury at this point. this is a controversial case obviously, its got a lot of national attention. the city of north charleston has already approved a $6.5 million civil set a ltlement. next year, there is a federal civil rights trial that michael slager will face. no matter what happens in this case, the story definitely is not over. right now, we are monitoring the courtroom to see if the jury might not be able to reach a consensus and that would be a hung jury, the jury is made up of 11 whites and one black man. they ll need to find any of those guilty or voluntary