A jury found Michael Kozlowski not guilty late Monday afternoon of all 33 charges against him in connection with an I-94 crash that killed five people associated with the Chippewa Falls High School Marching Band.

The verdict came down much quicker than most people at the courthouse thought it would. Even Judge William Gabler thought it would take until late Monday or even into Tuesday for the jury to make its decision. Instead, the seven women and five men reached their unanimous verdict in less than four hours.

For two weeks, many of the victims sat in silence and listened to hours and hours of testimony. Monday, that silence continued as Judge Gabler started reading the verdicts. No one seemed to move through all 33 counts.

When the dozens of victims and their families and friends filed quickly out of the courtroom, they were just as quiet. Not one wanted to comment.

One person who did want to talk was Defense Attorney Earl Gray. He says the fast decision is telling.

"It's a very quick verdict, especially that I have seen in a complex case like this,” Gray said shortly after the verdicts were read. "It's like I said from the beginning, Mr. Kozlowski was clearly innocent from the get-go."

District Attorney Rich White says he hopes the trial, even without a guilty verdict, brings some closure to people in Chippewa Falls.

"What I told them was they shouldn't consider feeling what they feel about what happened that night to be changed by what happened here," White said.

Monday, It took just about the same amount of time for jury instructions and closing arguments as it did for the jury to make its decision.