41.   Eight or nine jurors would be adequate to fairly decide a criminal case.

42.   Ellis said the jurors would be those who had no opinion about the case and therefore the concern about pre-trial publicity was irrelevant.

43.   Female jurors are more likely than men to blame the accuser for her injuries.

44.   Fifteen alternate jurors still are to be picked, a process that could take until the end of the month.

45.   Four jurors were from Darien, three from Stamford, two from New Canaan, one each from Greenwich, Wilton and Norwalk.

46.   Franklin said it was not unusual to conceal the identities of jurors in cases where jurors might be open to reprisal, typically in cases involving organized crime.

47.   For starters, the jurors are much more knowledgeable.

48.   Francine Florio-Bunten, the latest panelist to go, insists she is not but has said that several remaining jurors are.

49.   From the start, no one argued for acquittal, though four jurors were undecided.

50.   Gerard Brand, the jury foreman, said jurors had been reluctant to accept uncorroborated testimony from Beavers.