Calif. - As jurors in the O.J. Simpson civil trial resume deliberations Monday, a host of courthouse players return to a tedious wait for a verdict. Lawyers for the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman hunker down in a suite at the hotel across from the courthouse. They may return a few phone calls, but all other work is on hold. Print reporters huddle around The New York Times crossword puzzle.
Legal analysts mingle on the muddy lawn and offer live, on-camera assessments to whoever asks.
Simpson, for the most part, keeps a low profile at home in Brentwood. Sometimes he squeezes in a round of golf. All focus remains on this jury - six men and six women, nine of them white. The jury teetered on the brink of disintegration Friday. Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki ordered a criminal investigation of two jurors from the criminal trial after they sent letters to the jurors in the civil trial on behalf of their agent.