The jury have been out a week, and now they have to begin deliberations again, as a sick juror has been excused, and an alternate added. One rule of thumb for criminal cases, often observed in the breach, is that the longer a jury is out, the less likely it will be coming back with a guilty verdict.
I think most legal observers would have told you that Raj had a difficult case to make - those payoffs to the McKinsey partners are amazing. And with a bunch of counts, it's easy to compromise on convicting him of a couple and hanging on the rest (or even acquitting on some). That does him very little good in sentencing. I can't imagine the jury is 11-1 acquit. But it is possible that it is 11-1 convict.
Assuming the hold-out isn't the one who was taken sick, you may want to start talking to your law bookie about retrial odds. There's no way the government, in a shop-window, see-we-really-are-doing-something trial, will just acquiesce to a hung jury. They'd have to want to try him again.
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