to resume deliberations, and Eagan agreed: "If she should come in here and say some other juror had done something, then we have got to talk to that juror, and immediately we are dividing this jury."

Paul ordered that Brickle be sent back to deliberate with the others. His third note seemed final: "After consideration, it appears that there is no present need to have a conference. Thank you for bringing the matter to our attention."

*

But that did not end it. At 12:15 the jury broke to go out for a meal; the judge noticed that Mrs. Brickle looked pale as she left the room. A few minutes later, she collapsed, unconscious. A bailiff revived her, and she fainted a second time. She had to be carried to a courthouse office, apart from the others.

"She is up there and has passed out twice on us in an hour," Paul told the attorneys. "She is tight as a tick."

They were looking at a possible mistrial again, with the question of Brickle's health thrown in.

"I can never recall being quite as wrung out from a case as I am right now from this one," Hadley said.

They considered the possibility of having Brickle examined either by a jail house doctor or her own physician, who had sent in medication the day before.

Eagan, Hadley, and the judge went to the office where Brickle had been taken. But they did not see her; they sent a nurse to ask her whether she wanted a doctor.

Brickle answered, through the nurse, that she did not want to talk to a doctor. She wanted to talk to Paul. She felt that she was being pressured, the nurse said; one of the jurors had told her, "If you would make up your damn mind we could get out of here."

Paul instructed the nurse to tell her that he could not and would not talk to her, and the bailiffs sent her back with the others.

Now Hadley believed, almost to a certainty, that Brickle was a holdout against conviction. On the way back to the courtroom, he moved for a mistrial. Back in Paul's chambers, they put it on the record. Mrs. Brickle, he said, "...is being pressured by other jurors to make a decision which she is either morally or conscientiously opposed to.... This pressure has been of sufficient magnitude to cause her these physical problems.... Therefore the defense feels that any verdict brought would be as a result of the emotional strain and trauma being placed upon this lady as opposed to being a true verdict based upon the evidence and the law..."

Eagan argued against it.

"...As I understand it she feels pressured to make a decision, not to change a decision already made," Eagan said. "It would seem to me that this is what a juror