Judge Deva Pillay said he would take amajorityverdict from the jury but after deliberating for seven hours and 27 minutes they could not reach an outcome on which at least 10 of them agreed.
Ungar says that if Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson is correct in her charges that the majority distorted the law and the facts to reach a preordained verdict then the court itself has lost some of its legal authority.