The jury sent a question to the judge, which was how do they complete the verdict sheet if they’ve reached agreement on only 17 of the 18 counts. They also asked for a clean copy of the verdict sheet. This strongly suggests to me that they’ve already reached a verdict on 17 of the counts.
According to CNN, the judge indicated that he was leaning toward asking them to continue to deliberate on the one count, but to take a partial verdict if they were still unable to reach unanimity on that count. I thought last night when they asked to go until “at least 6:15” that they must be close and thought they had a chance of agreeing on a verdict yesterday.
When I heard they had a question after about 90 minutes of deliberation today, I strongly suspected that it was something like this. FWIW, I agree with the legal commentator on CNN who said that it’s highly unlikely that they would hang on one count if they had already decided on “not guilty” on the other 17 counts. There could well be some counts on which they agreed on a “not guilty” verdict, but I’d bet that they’ve agreed on a guilty verdict on most of them — and I’d give odds.
ADDENDUM:
It turns out that they were unable to agree on 10 counts, but agreed on a guilty verdict as to 8 of the counts — 5 counts of tax evasion, 1 count of failing to disclose a foreign bank account, and 2 counts of bank fraud.
The coverage drives me nuts when they add up the maximum sentences on each of the counts, and say that’s what Manafort is potentially facing. The federal sentencing guidelines will call for a much lighter sentence than that, although his sentence is likely to be measured in years, rather than months. It’s not even clear to me that a conviction on the other 10 counts would have added all that much to the sentence under the sentencing guidelines.