As WTC Trial Proceeds, Jurors Demand Clarification
As lawyers continue to tackle complex business dealings laden with insurance jargon in the trial over World Trade Center coverage, signs are emerging after only two weeks that fatigue and confusion may already be setting in among some jurors and that many of them are just too overwhelmed to follow along with the particulars of the case at this pace.
Indeed, last week, Michael Mukasey, the presiding judge, told the court that he had been informed by the jurors that they were getting confused. “I should tell you about a request that I got from the jury,” Judge Mukasey informed the lawyers in court after the jury had left for the day on Feb. 17. He remarked that jurors had sent him a note asking to repeat his instructions to them on “what issue you are trying here.”
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