 the first time about seven years ago when there was a mistrial but this time the jury seemed to have no doubt and when they held the gold bars in their hands and felt their weight and they saw wads of cash envelope after envelope stuffed in his jacket a safe in his closet even in his shoes that was enough for the jury to convict even though menendez tried to say hoarding cash was a cuban thing and it was his wife who was the one really responsible here