The prosecutor said that the failure to obtain medical treatment was a substantial factor in causing Kara's death.  He said that she'd been limp like a rag doll and comatose the entire morning of her death and there had been plenty of time to save her life; according to testimony by medical personnel, she didn't have the normal appearance of a child at all.  The prosecutor stated that diabetes is easily treated and untreated diabetes results in death (which is why I take my insulin!!).  He argued that Neumann did nothing to put an end to Kara's suffering and misery, and while he had medical training as a former deputy sheriff, he minimized his daughter's condition.  The prosecutor emphasized that Neumann made Kara's illness a test of his own faith and asked the jury to find Neumann guilty of second degree reckless homicide.

The defense attorney said the state hasn't proven basic elements of the case; he said that dispatch helped cause Kara's death by not initially sending an ambulance after being told of Kara's comatose state.  He also says that the state didn't bring one witness to prove Neumann was phony or aware his actions of faith healing would cause Kara's death. 

The prosecutor rebutted to the closing argument stating that Kara lying there for hours and hours and not being given medical treatment was a substantial factor.  The prosecutor then tells the jury that they should find the great bodily harm reason to convict, if they can't convict on Neumann's awareness she would die.

The jury started deliberating around 10:30 am.  It got to be around dinner time and it was announced they had not reached a verdict.  They chose to keep going for a while before taking a dinner break.  Around 7 they took a break for dinner, and it was around 8:30 pm they interrupted television to announce that the jury would be sequestered for the evening in a hotel and in the morning they would go back to the courthouse to return to deliberations.  It seems the jury is at an impasse.  Deadlocked.  Cannot come to a unanimous decision. 

In Leilani's trial, they reached a verdict in around 4 hours.  This time?  10 hours and nothing.  The bastard is gonna get off, and why?  Perhaps because he ranted like a crazy man on the stand.  I've never been on a jury, but I know that the more people that have to make a decision on something, the more difficult.  You have conflicting personalities from different backgrounds and ways of thinking.  What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall in that jury room.  I suppose no one will really know until afterward when the jurors are more able to talk about things that may have swayed their decision.

Hopefully the next time I blog about this, it will be with a verdict.  Even more, to announce a guilty verdict. 

It's not right to just sit and pray when a child is dying, especially from something that is very curable.