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The Members
Trial Transcript
Managing Directors!
Best & Brightest
Politics What a tainted jury!In a courtroom with a federal judge, a dozen federal attorneys, a group of defendant, and spectators, a nervous juror entered the courtroom, separated from the other jurors, and had the courage to tell the Court that people were using improper influence in the jury room, the Court snapped at this literally shaking woman. With uncommon bravado, she insisted that people were making decisions for other people. Again, the Court's voice rose, saying, "Ah! Ah! I don't want to hear it!" and sent her back into the jury room for deliberations. One might think the attorneys would be leaping, hm? Not a peep. At one point, another juror notified the Court that her Mercedes
Benz had been hit and damaged in the courthouse parking lot, and that she was sure the hit
and run had been committed by one of the defendants, Annette Haley, with Haley's Mercedes
Benz. Never mind that Haley had numerous outside investments; none of the other defendants
except the publisher of Who's Who had ever owned a Mercedes. Yet the impression on the jury
was clearly significant, more so with a juror carping in every private jury session that a
rich defendant's Mercedes had hit and damaged her car, AND had denied it and "Who's going
to pay for it?," and.... ... and this does not bode well.
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