Dewey & LeBoeuf, Jury Duty, Trials

Jurors Run Amok: Dewey Think The Prosecution Screwed Up This Trial?

At this point, it seems likely that the jury will be deadlocked.

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The signs that are coming from that jury are a prosecutor’s worst nightmare, especially having gone through a lengthy trial. Here, where the jury has been out for so many days, and the jury is asking for what true deliberations are, it’s clear the prosecution’s case isn’t as clear and crisp as what they would have liked. The longer it goes on, it’s the delight of the defense attorneys. It makes the chances of a verdict beyond a reasonable doubt increasingly unlikely.

— John Hueston of Hueston Hennigan, who played a leading role in the Enron prosecution, commenting on the jury’s general confusion in the criminal trial against Dewey & LeBoeuf’s former executives. Today is the tenth full day of deliberations, and as a former D&L partner noted, “It looks like they’re going to be totally deadlocked. I think they’re confused, deadlocked and divided.”

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