The Commissioners do not seem to have met before 1737, when they deliberated John Harrison's first reward, by which time many of the named MPs had died.
They are in the midst of a third and possibly final week of testimony in Manhattan before they begin deliberating.
Today, the lawyers met with Judge John F. Kavanewsky Jr. to discuss the instructions he will give to the jurors before they begin deliberating.
Seeking to break a 7-to-5 impasse the jury reported on Tuesday, the judge, Larry Paul Fidler of Superior Court, modified instructions he gave them on Sept. 10 before they began deliberating.
"He's told so many different stories," defense attorney Dmitry Gorin told jurors before they began deliberating last week.
"No person is the sum of the worst decision he ever made," one of Huguely's defense attorneys, Rhonda Quagliana, told jurors before they began deliberating his punishment.
It is, in a way, an extension of what the passengers on United 93 did when, as one of them told his wife on the phone before bringing down the plane, they deliberated, and took a vote.
The jurors had to find Smith not guilty of first-degree murder before they could begin deliberating on second-degree murder.
"These decisions," Judge Samour told jurors before they retired to deliberate on Holmes' fate, "may well be the most important and serious decisions that you will ever be asked to make".
By way of example, note that it's generally true that people who deliberate before they act do things that are more in their interests than those who simply act impulsively, without deliberation.
