The jury has now had the Aaron Hernandez murder case for more than a week, with no end in sight to their deliberations.
In theory, a decision can come at any time. The longer the deliberations go, the greater the chance that, on any given morning, a verdict will arrive fairly quickly, since it’s not uncommon for jurors to reach a tentative decision late in a given day, sleep on it, and finalize things the next morning.
The jurors started last Tuesday, and they have devoted well over 30 hours to the process. Most importantly, they have yet to send a note to Judge E.