LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Paul Manafort’s jury of 12 Northern Virginians couldn’t reach a unanimous agreement on 10 criminal charges, it was because of one juror. A photocopied version of the jury’s original handwritten verdict form, released Thursday [8-23-18] by the federal court, confirms that Manafort’s jury hung 11-to-1 on 10 counts of foreign banking and bank fraud crimes. The jury ultimately reached unanimous guilty verdicts on eight crimes, for tax fraud, bank fraud and a fraudulent foreign banking disclosure in 2012. On the right hand side of the form, which the jurors filled out during their deliberations, the jury wrote ‘No Consensus’ and ‘G to N, 11 to 1’ next to the 10 counts that hung, the form released Thursday shows. Judge T.S. Ellis declared a mistrial on those counts. The verdict form clearly shows how the jury placed checkmarks next to Manafort’s eight convictions. It also appears jurors almost convicted Manafort on two additional charges, for foreign banking violations in 2013 and 2014…The form confirms the story told by a juror in a Fox News interview Wednesday [8-22-18] night. The juror, Paula Duncan, described how she was a supporter of President Donald Trump, doubted the testimony of Manafort deputy Rick Gates and thought the prosecutors inched too close to a Russia collusion accusation. Still, she found the evidence against Manafort to be ‘overwhelming.'”
–Katelyn Polantz, “Manafort jury form confirms 11-1 split,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 23, 2018 3:15 pm