The wait is over. The jury in the Isaiah Kalebu case just reported to the bailiff that it has reached a verdict. As soon as the attorneys—and the accused—can reassemble it will be delivered.

UPDATE: While the courtroom (quickly) fills back up: I'm told the jury sent one written question to the judge this morning. It was a question about the time it takes for a person to form "premeditation" to commit murder, something along the lines of: Is the time it takes a person to pull out a gun enough time to form premeditation?

The judge told them: Look at your jury instructions.

The copy of the jury instructions that I was given show "premeditated murder in the first degree" as the first charge Kalebu is facing. About the term "premeditation," the instructions say:

Premeditated means thought over beforehand. When a person, after any deliberation, forms an intent to take human life, the killing may follow immediately after the formation of the settled purpose and it will still be premeditated. Premeditation must involve more than a moment in point of time. The law requires some time, however long or short, in which a design to kill is deliberately formed.

I can see why that might provoke a question.