It’s only day 2, the jury was handed the case Thursday morning, so they will have spent essentially 2 full days deliberating come 4:50 PM today (or nearly 2 full days since I believe they didn’t technically start right at 9:30 AM yesterday and they are leaving a little early today).
A couple things to consider; they aren’t just going in and voting guilty or not guilty for the entire case, they have to go through each individual charge, which is 18 counts I believe (5 counts of tax fraud, namely filing materially false tax returns for years 2010-2014, 4 counts of failing to file FBAR reports with the Treasury detailing foreign bank account holdings and 9 counts of bank fraud). As we could see with some of the questions yesterday, these are crimes that can sometimes deal with complex and technical issues that the jury needs to work through without much assistance from the court/judge. One of their questions indicated they may be somewhat swamped by all the evidence they have to go over (the evidence is in the room with them). The jury has a list of all the exhibits but they sent a note to the judge asking if the court could index that list with the indictment, essentially detailing what charge each exhibit relates to. The judge refused, meaning the jury may attempt to go through all 300+ exhibits and index them to the indictment themselves. I’d imagine that being a very time consuming process (some of the exhibits i’m sure relate to multiple charges). The question indicates that they want to look over all the evidence related to each individual charge and attempt to recollect each exhibits importance. According to some attorneys this issue of going through all the evidence has been made more difficult by one of the judges pre-trial rulings that related to whether the jury would be given a chance to see the exhibits during the trial, the judge ruled that they would not so now there are many pieces of evidence that the jury may of heard being mentioned only in passing in the trial but which they haven’t seen until now in deliberations.