But a simple "not guilty" vote would have put him directly at odds with Republicans; instead, citing Scottish law, Mr. Specter voted "not proven," adding, "therefore not guilty".
An initial survey of jurors, Mr. Meringer said, produced six guilty votes, four undecided, and two not guilty.
Judi DeMarco claims she was strong-armed by other jurors into a guilty vote in the 2009 trial.
The president pro tem was Benjamin Wade of Ohio, one of the most radical Republicans; the prospect of a Wade presidency weighed heavily on moderates when they cast their vote, With 36 guilty votes needed for removal, the radical Republicans had 35 committed guilty votes when the last undecided senator, the Republican Edmund Ross of Kansas, was called.
"Whenever she reached the precipice of a guilty vote on any count," Mr. McEntegart said, "she recoiled as if she had touched a hot stove".
Tapping his fingers nervously on the table as he looked at the paper where his lawyer kept track of each vote, Judge Porteous waited in vain for a "not guilty" vote.
B1 Skakel Jury's View The first ballot in the jury room produced eight guilty votes and four undecided; no one voted to acquit Michael C. Skakel of the murder of Martha Moxley in 1975.
In an interview with the Daily Mail she said: "I'm hoping that, eventually, Dobson and Norris will give up the others; that they won't take the whole guilty vote for themselves.
Q.E.D. Momentum for a guilty vote gained, even though most people in the room had by now agreed that they felt some "reasonable" doubt, however small, about the self-defense issue.
LONDON — With a jury's unanimous guilty vote on Thursday, one of the most senior female officers at Scotland Yard became the first person to be convicted of a criminal offense in the phone hacking scandal that has enveloped Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire in Britain over the past 30 months.
