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Juror Intimidation: Our Dirty Little Secret

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Appears a jury in Miami is now crying foul over a conviction in the high profile "Joe Cool" murder case. The story is here.Two jurors, of course after the verdict, said they felt "coerced, browbeaten and harassed during the five days of deliberations and finally voted to convict Hialeah security guard Guillermo Zarabozo, 20, of lesser charges -- but now they want to undo their guilty votes."Good job, way to fulfill your oath. Both of them should be sanctioned by the court.''I want to take back my vote to convict. I'm just sick over this whole thing. I think there has been a great miscarriage of justice, and I need to correct it,'' Venora Gray, 51, said.Venora, how about telling the judge DURING deliberations, before you ruined a guy's life?''No one in that jury room knew those were such serious charges,'' said Gray, a waitress from North Miami, who years ago served as a juror in another murder trial and convicted the defendant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).