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Freelance writer Lewis Beale contributed to this report.

Justice Christopher Beale also told the jury that confidential juror discussions were "vital to the administration of justice".

Baldwin’s writing about race and American society was always entwined with love stories, from his pathbreaking 1956 LGBTQ+ novel “Giovanni’s Room” to his late classic, 1974’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.”

Former Times staff writer Lauren Beale contributed to this report.

"The overarching issue is whether she intended to kill or cause very serious injury," Judge Christopher Beale said.