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Juror # 7 only has eyes for the defense team, in particular lead attorney Charles Carnesi, whom she refers to as "her man," according to the jury-room snitch.
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Before testimony was suspended to deal with the jury-room dispute, turncoat Kevin McMahon, who took part in a 1990 mob hit that Junior allegedly supervised for his father, testified that neither Alite nor the mob scion had any role in it.
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Men in a jury-room, like those scientifically demonstrated atoms of a crystal which scientists and philosophers love to speculate upon, like finally to arrange themselves into an orderly and artistic whole, to present a compact, intellectual front, to be whatever they have set out to be, properly and rightly — a compact, sensible jury.
The Financier 2004
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Anyhow, the whole series of transactions between him and Stener seemed deserving of some punishment, and all during this testimony he was thinking how, when he got in the jury-room, he would vote guilty.
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The judge stirred among his papers wearily, and turning to the jurors solemnly, began his customary explanation of the law, after which they filed out to the jury-room.
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In a jury-room, of all places, a man is expected to give a reason for the faith that is in him — if one is demanded.
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Meanwhile the great argument had been begun in the jury-room, and all the points that had been meditatively speculated upon in the jury-box were now being openly discussed.
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In a jury-room the thought or determination of one or two or three men, if it be definite enough, is likely to pervade the whole room and conquer the reason or the opposition of the majority.
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A third bailiff guarded the door of the jury-room; and in addition to these there were present a court clerk — small, pale, candle-waxy, with colorless milk-and-water eyes, and thin, pork-fat-colored hair and beard, who looked for all the world like an Americanized and decidedly decrepit Chinese mandarin — and a court stenographer.
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The jury-room itself may and frequently does become a dull agony.
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