How long should I expect deliberation to take?
Sometimes when your are serving on a very complicated case and all the jurors get to the jury deliberation room you may or may not be sequestered but there may be so much evidence you need to rehash just so you agree on points of fact about the case but it may take you a long time. You may need to ask for more things to be brought in from the court reporter. Sometimes jury deliberation can take days and in a couple of cases I know it has taken a couple of weeks. So it doesn't usually take that long , but if it does, don't be upset about that because what you are there to do is make sure that justice is rendered and until your all convinced that your individual verdict is your best verdict for justice you should continue to talk. And even if you can't all agree keep talking to each other respectfully, listen to everybody's point of view, but don't agree just to be on the same side with everyone else. So let the deliberations go on as long as they need to.