Interest in the jury deliberations in the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey intensified after the first three days of deliberation, and one jurist was replaced with an alternate juror. In covering the Menendez jury deliberations, New Jersey State's leading law journal, The New Jersey Law Journal, interviewed and reported on Robert G. Stahl's assessment of the state of the jury, in their article: "Trial Watchers Expect Just a Few More Days of Deliberations for Menendez Jury."