[porscheguy]

The real tragedy is that once the juror was dismissed, Avery was given a choice to allow the alternate juror to fill in, or to have it declared a mistrial and start over. He opted for the alternate. I would think that under such circumstances, if your defense fund could hold out, you'd go for the mistrial and start over. And that's because a retrial isn't going to be a 100% verbatim repeat of the first trial. OTOH, when held without bail, and being treated like a prisoner, I would imagine most people would be strongly inclined to allow the alternate and get a verdict, especially when you're innocent and believe that your counsel provided solid reasonable doubt. They'd do this, just so they could get the nightmare ordeal over with, and back to living their life.