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Vanderbilt rape jury negotiated compromise

Jurors heard from a man who saw the rape and watched part of it themselves in graphic videos, but one of the 12 still wasn’t convinced.

Eleven of the jurors were in favor of convicting former Vanderbilt University football player Cory Batey on all seven counts as charged, according to two jurors who spoke to The Tennessean.

One juror was a holdout, the jurors said, and the verdicts had to be unanimous. After 2 1/2 hours there was compromise in the deliberation room.

Read the rest of the story from our news partner, The Tennessean, here.