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To: Enterprise

Haven’t at least two of the original jurors state publically if they knew then what they now know about the case they would not have voted to convict?


93 posted on 12/03/2007 7:18:20 PM PST by Brytani (RIP #21 - Hail To The Redskins!!)
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To: Brytani

Yes. At least two of them spoke out. I was wondering what the rest of them are thinking now.


94 posted on 12/03/2007 7:19:27 PM PST by Enterprise (Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
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To: Brytani

“Haven’t at least two of the original jurors state publically if they knew then what they now know about the case they would not have voted to convict?”

Yes, after they and their families were threatened. Take it for what it is worth, a bone thrown to the mob to keep them off the doorstep.


97 posted on 12/03/2007 7:31:34 PM PST by Bob J
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To: Brytani
Haven’t at least two of the original jurors state publically if they knew then what they now know about the case they would not have voted to convict?

Yep.

08/13/2006

Two of the jurors who convicted the agents also are expressing misgivings about the verdict, saying they were pressured by other jury members and the prosecution to reach a quick decision in the case. ...On Friday, two of the 12 jurors who convicted the agents said pressure from the prosecution and possible misconduct involving other jurors may have led to the conviction. In an interview with the Daily Bulletin Saturday, a juror who asked to be identified only as Claudia said she was the last holdout on the jury before the guilty verdicts were handed down. "I've had nightmares about the family since the day of the verdict," Claudia said. "I want to do whatever I can to support the families. I'm not at peace."
10/18/06, Jurors say they were misled to convict agents
One man and two women on the jury that convicted two former El Paso Border Patrol agents of shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks last year said they were misled into agreeing with a guilty verdict, according to a motion filed Tuesday.... The three jurors, identified in court documents as Robert Gourley, Claudia Torres and Edine Woods, said they were still holding out on a guilty vote by the second day of deliberation. "I did not think the defendants were guilty of the assaults and civil rights violations," Woods wrote in her sworn affidavit.
October 25, 2006
U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas, sentenced Jose Alonso Compean to 12 years in prison and Ignacio Ramos to 11 years and one day despite a plea by their attorney for a new trial after three jurors said they were coerced into voting guilty in the case.

150 posted on 12/04/2007 11:37:44 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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