Judge Harkin calls a recess for lunch and the jury makes their way back to the jury room. Twenty minutes passes and their lunch hasn't arrived, so Easter questions Lou Dell, who tells him that it is on its way. Easter tells the other members of the jury that at most other trials, they would have been allowed to go and get their own lunch and that he knows that because he studied law for two years. Another 20 minutes passes and Easter asks to go to the men's room, but instead heads down to the restaurant where he knows Judge Harkin will be eating lunch. He approaches Harkin about the non-existent lunch, and Harkin treats them to lunch in the back room of the same restaurant. In investigating what happened to the.....
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