article_snippet.sent: Jurors could be sent to deliberate as early as next week.
article_snippet.sent: Then the jury will be given instructions, and three alternates will be randomly selected from among the jurors immediately before deliberating.
article_snippet.sent: A final jury of 12 members will decide Hernandez's fate.
article_snippet.sent: Eighteen jurors began the trial in January, but three were dismissed, including one who is accused of misrepresenting her answers during screening in a bid to get onto the jury.
highlights_snippet.sent: Prosecutors have called more than 100 witnesses to testify .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The 15 jurors could be sent out early next week to deliberate .
  