Welcome back. It's time for a quick bit clip. The full episode will be linked in the description,

but this is the quick bit clip to keep you in the loop for everything that's happening on the

live stream channel. Let's get into it. So Karen Reid and her attorneys and the Commonwealth

through their attorney, no, not Lally, no, not Brennan, their appellate attorney,

argued to the Supreme Judicial Court. The defense had made motions that were legally difficult

at best to dismiss the counts of Karen Reed's case. they say that the jury came to verdicts on.

I understand where they are coming from when numerous jurors reached out and said, hey, we had

verdicts on two of the most serious counts, counts one and counts three.

We had verdicts.

But then we came into court and we couldn't resolve the second count.

And then it just got dismissed and we just got put back on a bus and we had no idea

WTF is even happening.

But we had verdicts on two of the counts.

And the argument is legally are those final verdicts if they are not written down.

Like, is that your final answer?

Like, when you say, deal or no deal, is it final until you, like, hit the button?

So if it's not written down, is it a final verdict?

And I find this entire circumstance deeply frustrating because it remains my position

that had the jury just been polled, this would have been resolved in the courtroom before the

jury was dismissed. I believe the jurors that said this all happened really fast. However,

I have been told by many that it is not the common practice to poll juries in Massachusetts,

and it is true that neither side asked for the jury to be pulled and had the opportunity to do so. So there are some

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