One juror wants to know if community service is an option. Wouldn’t that have been nice? If there was some way out for everyone involved that didn’t mean the financial death penalty for a group of journalists? It was, as Hemingway once put it, pretty to think so, but sadly no more than that. “I think,” the judge says with a sigh, “it’s not that type of case.” It will not be that kind of verdict, either.
