One thing that we shouldn't forget is that if he is found not guilty, he might be able to be charged under federal charges for another go-around.
I don't know if anyone here remembers a Houston bookie, Robert (Bob) Angleton, who offered to pay his brother to kill his wife, Doris Angleton. During their daughter's baseball game at which Robert Angleton was coaching his daughters, he sent Doris to the house to get some more equipment, bats, I think. When she arrived at the house, the brother killed her.
His brother committed suicide in jail waiting trial. Angleton went on trial for murder in Houston and was found not guilty. Someone on the jury told the press that they thought he was guilty, but that the prosecutor did not prove the case and so they felt obliged to vote not guilty.
The federal government then filed charges. Three days or so before the federal trial, Angleton skipped the country using someone else's passports. (The two who got passports and gave them to Angleton were found guilty of that.) Angleton was arrested going through customs in, I think, Amsterdam when they discovered a couple of hundred thousand dollars hidden in his suitcase.
They refused to extradite Angleton to the US because they opposed to the death penalty and he would be prosecuted for something for which he could get the death penalty. After a year or two sitting in a prison over there, they finally came to an agreement with the US. They would extradite Angleton as long as he was tried on charges for which the death penalty could not be used. Once he finished his sentence for that, the US could, if they wished, then continue on with their murder case against him.
So Angleton was brought back and charged with tax evasion. He was convicted and got something like 9 years in prison. He served a few years and was released. Once the 9 years was up, the US could have charged him with murder again but I have never seen any news reports about them doing so.
As I understand it, to file federal charges after he was found not guilty by the state, the government had to assert an additional element of the crime so that the crime is not "identical" to the state crime for which he was acquitted by the jury.
