I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal police. Oh, Welcome back Brett. I missed you a lot. I missed you a lot. I miss you too and so much happened while I was going before we... A lot happened. So the day you left I think was closing arguments and a couple days I can't remember. Anyways, I happened to be in the car, so I was able to listen to the entire closing arguments,

like almost in real time, within minutes or whatever.

And then a week went by, no verdict, until today when you came back and they decided to surprise you.

Anyways, we should probably start.

Mistrial.

Which just means there was a hung jury and the jury note.

Well, they can't, because there's no verdict,

they can't talk to the jurors, because usually afterwards.

Well, it depends.

No, actually, I read that they couldn't speak to them.

Well, the judge is not releasing their names publicly because there was no verdict.

Yeah, because there was no verdict.

Which is interesting, and this is unique, at least to Massachusetts law law is the retrial has to happen within a year.

Because I don't think in the federal system there's a timeline.

I think it's, I think there is one in the Speedy Trial Act.

Yeah, I don't remember what the, what it it is I think it's less than a year actually but then it must I guess you can waive it just like speedy trial you can you can okay okay because I've definitely seen it outside of the time period.

But anyways, all we know really from the jury's thinking is by the note they sent to the judge

where oftentimes you'll get juries, especially after they've deliberated for a long time

saying something along the lines of we can't reach a verdict.

And then usually the judge will implore them to try harder, sometimes they'll do something called give an Allen charge, sometimes

not something short of an Allen charge, depends on the judge, sometimes judges don't like it,

but the Allen charge essentially is like, you must do your job, right? which they did in this case they gave an

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