MILWAUKEE — Outside the courthouse, the defense attorney for Maxwell Anderson pushed back on claims about how quickly the jury returned a guilty verdict, after deliberations lasted under an hour on Friday.

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"Everybody had the night to think about things. They've been sitting through a two-week trial. It's quick in the sense that they deliberated for a short period of time, but the trial has lasted two weeks,” Cotton explained. “It shouldn't take people days and days and days to sort of know where they stand once they've been presented with this kind of evidence.”

Cotton emphasized that he was not surprised by the testimony presented in court, saying it aligned with the defense’s expectations and that it wasn’t

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