1.   According to the San Antonio Express-News, jury forewoman Christy Sams said the case pivoted on freedom of speech.

2.   But jury forewoman Christy Sams said the case turned on the issue of free speech.

3.   Champagne earlier granted jurors limited immunity and openly chastised the jury forewoman, Sheila Mitrowski, in court.

4.   Jurors Carrie Bess and Marsha Rubin-Jackson collaborated with jury forewoman Armanda Cooley on the book.

5.   Jury forewoman Hughes said a central flaw in the defense was the lack of a written plan to reorganize library employees.

6.   Jury forewoman Sheila Mitrowski said the deliberations, which began Tuesday morning, were tense.

7.   Mitrowski, the jury forewoman, said that initially the women on the jury seemed more sympathetic to Fleiss.

8.   On Saturday afternoon, as the jury forewoman read the verdict, one woman on the panel began sobbing so uncontrollably that she nearly collapsed.

9.   She was selected as jury forewoman because she happened to be seated in the first chair in the jury box.

10.   The jury forewoman reported to McKenna that they were deadlocked, causing McKenna to interview each juror Wednesday to see if they could continue to deliberate.