Date:         Sun, 20 Jun 93 13:32:37 MST
From: Idaho_Survivalist <[R P SBETZ] at [idbsu.idbsu.edu]>
Subject:      Randy Weaver trial update: Day 42.
To: [firearms politics] at [cs.cmu.edu]


Note: These trial updates are summarized from reports in the
_Idaho Statesman_ and the local NBC affiliate television
station, KTVB Channel 7.

Randy Weaver/Kevin Harris trial update: Day 42.

Thursday, June 17, 1993 was the forty-second day of the trial.

Synopsis: Attorneys on both sides acknowledge that deliberations
could continue for a "long time."  Defense attorneys David Nevin and
Gerry Spence met with their clients for a few minutes today.

Attorneys for both the prosecution and defense today acknowledged
that deliberations could continue for a "long time" given the rather
complicated nature of the case.  David Nevin, defense attorney for
Kevin Harris, said that the jurors will probably take their time, "You
picture people having sat patiently for two months, 40 days, and 56
witnesses...and now you retire to the jury room.  It could go on for a
long time because of the volume of stuff that they have to go
through."  Nevin then summarized the deliberation issue succinctly,
"A jury might be out for an hour or it might be out for a week.
There isn't anything to do but wait."  Nevin said that, in the event the
jury fails to reach a verdict this week, he expects that the
deliberations will continue into the weekend.  The jury decides its
own schedule for weekend duty.  The jury met today from 8am to
5pm without asking U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge any questions.

In a related story, defense attorneys David Nevin and Gerry Spence
today met with the clients on the seventh floor of the federal
courthouse in Boise, Idaho.  After the meeting, Nevin said, "He's
[Harris] twenty-five years old and charged with murder and he's
waiting for the verdict.  He seems optimistic and he seems to be in as
good spirits as you could expect."  Gerry Spence was considerably
more cagey, "We [Spence and Randy Weaver] talked about life, love,
and the price of a hamburger."
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