The intriguing case — all that wealth and celebrity, the heartbreaking toll of Alzheimer’s disease, the questions about what children owe parents and vice versa — took a turn for the bizarre this week. The juror who said during the trial that she felt threatened, causing questions by the judge and fears of a mistrial, has gone public — and she has changed her mind. She only voted to convict, Judith DeMarco now says, because she feared for her safety.
So the defense has filed a motion to vacate the verdict. The Times’s John Eligon reported on Tuesday that the other jurors were talking about who yelled at whom and whether Ms. DeMarco had real cause to be afraid, while legal experts considered what impact her claims might have. No comment yet from the district attorney.
Read More
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_b.png?x-id=a7305cd0-df73-4acc-94c9-c4f3b382beb8)
No comments:
Post a Comment