On Friday the jury began deliberations in the case of Johannes Mehserle, the BART officer who fatally shot Oscar Grant as Grant was laying face down on a subway platform in Oakland.
The jury deliberated for a couple of hours before quitting for the long weekend because one of the jurors got sick. When they came back on Tuesday it turned out that another juror had a doctor’s appointment while a third had to leave for a previously planned vacation.
The vacationing juror had to be replaced by a brand new juror so deliberations started from scratch on Wednesday, but didn’t get all that far before the day was over.
They will resume yet again today, Thursday.
The San Francisco Chronicle has more details.
Meanwhile, in a lot of neighborhoods, as the LA Wave points out, people continue to worry about post-verdict reactions.
YOUNG MAN SUCCEEDS DESPITE TIME SERVED IN LA COUNTY PROBATION CAMPS
The LA Weekly has a good story by Sam Slovick that combines a sort-of round-up of the horrid state of things at LA County’s Probation Department together with a tale of a kid who’s doing well, in spite of his awful experiences in one of the county’s camps.