Trial, Day 12: Jury at an impasse

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Minnesota Public Radio

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🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The judge re-read jurors a portion of the instructions he'd given them on Monday. "You should not hesitate to reexamine your views and change your opinion if they become erroneous, but you should not surrender your honest opinion simply because other jurors disagree or merely to reach a verdict."

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0:00.0	The first trial of the former officers charged in the killing of George Floyd is underway.
0:06.0	Police officers are rarely prosecuted in such cases and the world will be watching.
0:11.0	The Minnesota Public Radio Newsroom which has followed this
0:14.3	case in detail from the beginning will bring listeners updates on this
0:18.3	monumental trial and the consequences it holds for the city and the country.
0:24.0	Listen to in front of our eyes wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:30.0	3.18. Good afternoon. I'm Tom Cran, Minnesota Public Radio News, now to the trial of St Anthony
0:36.6	police officer Heronimo Yanez on the 8th floor today of the Ramsey County Courthouse.
0:43.6	A lot of Twitter traffic about a lot of commotion within the last hour.
0:47.6	Our rehab Fisher is there and we should say first no verdict yet but tell us what actually happened rehab.
0:56.9	Well there was a lot of buzz on the eighth floor in the courthouse and we were just
1:02.4	ushered into the courtroom with everyone else, family
1:04.9	members and media and what we found out was that it appeared the jury cannot reach a verdict.
1:12.1	At this point it's been 14 hours and they haven't reached a verdict so the judge basically
1:19.5	We urged them to to continue deliberating and kind of urge them to continue to
1:22.8	to refer back to those instructions that talk about, you know,
1:30.0	considering everybody's opinions, don't abandon your own thoughts and views on this case,
1:34.4	and just sent them back to the jury room.
1:37.0	This is 74 seconds. I'm Tracy Mumford.
1:45.0	At just after 3 o'clock this afternoon, we got this tiny bit of news.
1:49.0	Not a verdict, but some news in the trial of officer Horana Moyanes.
1:54.0	Just before our reporter Reham Fashir went live on the air,
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