Andy — Thanks for those thoughts. It did appear this morning that the defense seemed a bit more upbeat — just body language and facial expressions — than did the prosecution. On the other hand, there’s a lot of buzz about the juror who was dismissed. She was the former art curator who declined to wear a T-shirt with the rest of the jury on Valentine’s Day. At the time, there was speculation that perhaps she was a dissenter, and her presence was dividing the jury, which would be good news for a defense team hoping for a hung jury if it couldn’t get an acquittal. In that scenario, her removal could conceivably be bad news for the defense. On the other hand, I thought that as an art curator, she probably refused to put on the red T-shirt for purely aesthetic reasons. In any event, she’s gone. Does that mean a divisive factor has been removed, or that there are other problems? You got me.

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Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.
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