The Manhattan district attorney's office has not announced whether Pedro Hernandez will be re-tried in the kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz in 1979. NY1's Michael Herzenberg filed the following report.

Edwin Thompson doesn't regret his time as a juror in the Etan Patz case, even if his job as as a real estate broker suffered.

"Four months of your life gone? Life is always gone, but it was a productive four months," Thompson said.

"I've gotten some work done in between, but mostly, no."

It's a sacrifice for civic duty 12 other people will have to make if the Manhattan District Attorney re-tries the case.

"The chances of a retrial are basically 100 percent," said former prosecutor and now Brooklyn Law Professor Lisa Smith.

Smith said the retrial's a sure thing because 11 of the 12 jurors voted to convict Pedro Hernandez and the Patz family wants the defendant to pay for the death of little Etan.

"In this particular case, I think the prosecutor has the advantage," she said.

Because only one juror prevented a conviction, Smith says prosecutors only have to fine tune their case while defense attorneys will need to perform an overhaul.

The defense claimed that Hernandez confessed because he was mentally ill. For 11 jurors, that was far less convincing than Hernandez's repeated incriminating statements to police and to friends, which means defense attorney Harvey Fishbein may have attack those witnesses.

"I think he's probably going to have to consider whether to go after those non-police witnesses who also heard confessions in a much tougher way," Smith said.

If there is a new trial, one question will be whether the same judge will preside over it. A new judge might rule differently about what evidence to allow, potentially transforming the landscape. But Smith said a new judge is unlikely.

"I am haunted by that photograph of Etan because I remember when it happened in 1979," Thompson said.

Edwin Thompson was one of the 11 who voted guilty. He has advice for the next round of jurors.

"I would say go at it because this guy is guilty as hell," he said.

Smith said both sides have to review the transcripts of the 10-week-long trial before proceeding, so a retrial in September is more likely than one any time this summer.