Ghislaine Maxwell’s four-week sex trafficking trial culminated earlier this week with a guilty verdict, delivered after five full days of jury deliberations. Here’s a look at the players involved, and how the deliberations unfolded.
None had much interest in or imprint on social media. One juror, asked what she does for fun, answered: “I love to clean.”
Identified only by numbers, they seemed attentive throughout the trial. Once deliberations began, they sent notes with occasional questions and requested transcripts of most of the trial’s key testimony, never once hinting at a deadlock. In making rulings, Nathan seemed confidently decisive and mostly immovable once she had arrived at a conclusion. Nobody knew that better than Maxwell, who watched Nathan deny her bail requests, again and again.But during the deliberations, the judge acknowledged that it was the jury that was in charge. She accepted their wishes around work hours even if it went against her own instructions, noting that they were “not shy to indicate” what they wanted.
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