Opinion ID: 1521791
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 21

Heading: the jury's deliberations

Text: The following day, after receiving its instructions from the court, the jury retired to deliberate upon its verdict. It withdrew from the courtroom at 11:28 a.m. on March 22, 1983. Along with their recollections of the trial, the jurors brought Ruffin's involuntary, inadmissible, written statement, Government Exhibit 27, into the jury room with them. At 5:12 p.m. the jury, not having arrived at a verdict, informed the court that it was ready to retire for the evening. It was excused. The jury returned to the jury room at 9:50 a.m. the next morning. At 11:16 a.m. on March 23, 1983, the jury returned to the courtroom with its verdict. The jury found Antone Ruffin guilty of the second-degree murder of Clifford Wilson. [We know nothing of what took place during the seven hours and ten minutes that the twelve jurors spent alone with each other in the jury room.]