Around 11 a.m. of the panel's fourth day of deliberations, a note with a question came from the jury foreman, asking how jurors should fill out the verdict form "if we cannot come to a consensus on a single count," said U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis. The jury also asked what that would mean for the final verdict, Ellis said.
Though the meaning of the note wasn't entirely clear from its wording, the judge apparently took the panel's note to mean that they are stuck on a single count, not all of them.
Ellis said the note was "not an exceptional or unusual event in a jury trial," and he distributed to the lawyers an instruction he proposed giving to jurors.