Posted on 09/25/2026 6:06:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
People who sat in that room and the papers that quoted them in 1991 describe an unemployed man who liked the $15 a day and the free meals as the lone holdout in the case.
The Post reports:
But 35 years ago, jurors told The Post, Newsday, the Daily News and the Associated Press that the actual holdout was an unemployed man who wanted to keep the trial going so he could continue getting paid by the court for his civic duty.
A law enforcement source from the time also told The Post this week that the holdout was a man.
“He was unemployed and liked the $15 a day and the three free meals,” juror Valerie Holmes told Newsday in the aftermath of the verdict.
“He liked that we were arguing on and on.”
Holmes reiterated the claim to The Post and The Daily News, describing the holdout as being “very determined” and “manipulative” man determined to get his way.
“From day one, this particular person was determined that the jury was going to find Rakowitz not guilty by reason of mental disease,” jury forewoman Lois Markle told the AP at the time.
Meanwhile, Hostin was quoted as a juror on the case in multiple news clips at the time — but she did not identify herself as the holdout, nor did any of the fellow jurors who talked to the press after the trial.
In a statement to Newsday at the time, under her legal name Asunción Cummings, Hostin also contradicted her current claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
When we first heard Mark Simone report this story I said to my wife “I’ll bet anything she’s lying”.....
she a liar
In other breaking news, it was revealed that the sun shines and water is wet.
So she’s a liar in addition to being a bigot.
That bitch is evil.
W! U! T! Some harridan on the view is a liar? Toss a dart in their direction and it’ll hit liar on that gaggle.
Sonny LIED? A pre-meditating, anti-human, lying POS psychopath on tv? Someone pays her to amplify LIES? Problem.
It’s bizarre how people will lie now about things they ought to know will be found out.
I guess they saw that Hilary Clinton did it with impunity so they can get away with it, too.
“But you and I we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let’s stop talking falsely now
The hour’s getting late.”
Bob Dylan-Jimi Hendrix All Along the Watchtower
I find it had to believe that a member of The View would lie...
The story sounded fake.
who is surprised by this? she’s an attention whore.
a few decades ago, i sat on a local felony trial where all the jail personnel F-ed up, and through incompetence and carelessness, allowed a new prisoner to walk out of the jail ...
the local DA, who never tries a perp himself, thought he had a slam-dunk case and charged the escapee with felony escape ...
the jury thought differently ... it was 11-1 to acquit and i was the jury chairman, and when time came for escort to a local restaurant for another free meal, i knew the lone holdout was simply wanting one more free dinner, so when the bailiff knocked and asked us what we wanted to do, i told him we were close and could probably wrap it up in a couple more hours ... the holdout instantly changed her mind and i then let the bailiff know we had reached a unanimous verdict ...
Grifters gotta grift.................
I stopped reading after the first three words: “Sunny Hostin lied.” Duh.
What a psychotic thing to make up such a lie about.
The only folks who believed that ‘tard’s statement are the ones too dumb to know better than to watch View to begin with.
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