21.   The jury in the trial of a landscape gardener man who allegedly raped two teenage girls is expected to reach a verdict today.

22.   THE jury in the trial of a man accused of attempting to murder walker Josephine Chandler is expected to retire to reach a verdict today.

23.   The jury failed to reach a verdict on a charge of conspiracy to murder.

24.   Although jurors never had a chance to reach a verdict, they agreed.

25.   And they refuse to predict when they might reach a verdict on a wider expansion.

26.   And the jury, after being locked up for nine months, took only four hours to reach its verdict.

27.   As word spread that the verdict had been reached, crowds massed outside the seaside courthouse.

28.   Assuming that it actually gets to reach a verdict, that is.

29.   At trial earlier this year, a King County Superior Court jury, with a majority favoring acquittal, was unable to reach a verdict.

30.   Attempts to link him, directly, to the murder and arson failed in the past, as all-white juries could not reach verdicts.