Judge Alison J. Nathan argued on Monday that an hour extension during deliberations could prevent COVID-19 from disrupting the sex trafficking trial.
is urging jurors to deliberate the case until 6 p.m. moving forward due to an"astronomical spike" in coronavirus cases.
"We are very simply at a different place regarding the pandemic than we were only one week ago and we now face a high and escalating risk that jurors and/or trial participants may need to quarantine, thus…putting at risk our ability to complete this trial," Nathan explained to the jury on Monday evening."Accordingly, extending deliberations by an hour gives the jury more time each day to continue to engage in its thoughtful deliberations.
"We would object to trying to urge them to stay later if they are not asking to do so and aren't expressing any difficulty in proceeding with the deliberations that they are currently undertaking," she argued.
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