I will need a story to look at to answer this...
The correct answer is that jury deliberated so long.
Atticus lost the trial but he actually helped move the town to the road of racial equality. In cases where a black man was accused of violating a white women there was almost no deliberation at all.The victory here was that Atticus managed to make the jurors actually try to do the right thing and acquit Tom because he was innocent. One juror in particular held out long and that was Cunningham.
Imagine you are reading and you find a confusing part or word. If you don’t ask the question to find out you will never know what that meant same goes for scientists