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: Kentucky Law BlogDIET DRUG TRIAL: "Jurors: Parties in Ky. fraud case eavesdropping"
By Michael Stevens
From the Herald Leader is an odd story of claims of juror stalking and eavesdropping:
A federal judge threatened to charge lawyers and witnesses in a high-profile fraud trial with contempt of court on Tuesday after jurors said they thought parties in the case were following them and eavesdropping.
The case has been closely followed in Kentucky and the horse racing industry because two of the defendants' part-ownership of 2007's Horse of the Year, Curlin.
U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman told attorneys they should stay away from jurors during recesses from the trial of three lawyers accused of defrauding clients out of $60 million of a diet-drug settlement.
"If someone is doing this, they will find themselves in real trouble," Bertelsman said.
Defense attorneys, federal prosecutors and an attorney for plaintiffs in a related civil case told the judge that any contact with jurors outside the courtroom on lunch breaks was inadvertent.
Full post as published by Kentucky Law Blog on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).
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