Developments in the retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez from March 11-15, 1996.
MARCH 11
The jury deliberated for a fifth day without reaching a verdict.
MARCH 12
Jurors deliberated for about five hours. They asked to see several exhibits including photographs of the Menendez home in Beverly Hills.
MARCH 13
After seven days of deliberations, there still is no verdict. And in the past three days, the jury has not asked to re-hear any testimony or asked any questions.
MARCH 14
The jury deliberations must start all over again.
That's because Judge Stanley Weisberg removed two female jurors, including the foreperson, from the case because of medical emergencies. The court did not release any additional information about the jurors' medical conditions.
The jurors were replaced by one male and one female. The jury now consists of eight men and four women. There are two remaining alternates, both men.
Judge Weisberg told the new panel that it must "set aside and disregard all past deliberations and begin anew." The jury selected a new foreperson and deliberated for several hours in the afternoon.
MARCH 15
The new jury panel of eight men and four women concluded its first full day of deliberations without reaching a verdict..
Judge Stanley Weisberg reminded the panel that it must begin its deliberations anew, after the jurors asked if they could consider written material they had prepared during the earlier deliberations. The jury had deliberated for seven days before two female jurors were removed Thursday from the panel because of medical emergencies.
It turns out that the former foreperson was removed because she suffered a heart attack. The other juror was removed because she went into premature labor.
