Originally Posted by Chloé Palmas

The thing is, those jurors were clear on the (obvious) guilt of Manafort on the charges that they found guilt on almost instantly...the delay was on the ones determined to be deadlocked which they had a mistrial over.

Basically the way that juries end up is that they get hardened beyond all reason and just hunker down in their positions.

There is no budging at that point, on the rest.

The government should re-try the counts and then comes the second trial. If sentences run concurrent (assuming that he is found guilty in the second trial) this will put him away for the rest of his life.

There is no indication that Trump would pardon him yet.