In my case, after 2 days of deliberation it was clear we weren’t going to agree on one of the counts. We tried countless different methods of trying to sway and understand each other, exercises to try and hear the other side’s arguments, and we couldn’t get there. It would get pretty stressful and heated at moments and that when we would all stop deliberating and take a break (stand up, read, we even did a handmade wordle (since we didn’t have our phones)) and then regroup. We all didn’t want to come back on Monday (it was Friday) and decided to be hung on the one count, the judge was satisfied we tried our best and let us go.
I think that was the $40k for the horse of MBs that LK purchased that had health issues and it supposedly included that that the horse was to stay at the farm forever as it was the only home he had known.
I understood that there was some sort of agreement between the parties - LK, RG, JK, MB, et al that RG would do the remodeling/rehab on the house and barn projects to offset the incredibly low board/training/housing that was being charged.
According to LK - she bought Jay-T for $40k. It was not outlined how/if she had already paid for him. She tried to sell it on the stand as a humanitarian gesture so that the horse could live out his days at the farm he’d been at for so long. It was not stated, that I remember, if that dollar amount was to include free board for the rest of his life.
I hope they can write stuff down in the jury room. We couldn’t take notes in court, but once deliberations started we had notepads, post-its, and a whiteboard to use in the jury room.