Posted on 11/09/2017 4:17:54 PM PST by SMGFan
NEWARK -- Jurors deciding whether U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez accepted gifts from a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist can't agree on whether they were bribes or acts of generosity between two good friends, a juror dismissed from the case said Thursday.
"It's a hung jury right now," Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby told the media after she was excused from the trial Thursday afternoon.
The juror said her former fellow panel members were still going through documents amassed during nine weeks of testimony in an attempt to determine whether the Democratic lawmaker committed a crime.
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“The fix is in. Menendez walks.”
Absolutely. Anyone on FR that thinks there is a chance of conviction in this case is smoking happy weed.
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
When the scales of justice has an unjust thumb pushed down upon them, we notice. We The People notice.
“”It’s a hung jury right now,” Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby told the media after she was excused from the trial Thursday afternoon.”
She should be jailed. Can’t figure out why the judge didn’t admonish her when he released her not to talk about the case. Very prejudicial, but then it’s New Jersey, the place where New York City takes it’s daily crap
The defense presented a case suggesting that this kind of sh!t happens in the U.S. Senate all the time ... then asked the jurors to consider why Menendez is being singled out among the 99 others.
That's why the juror says she thinks Menendez is being "railroaded." She simply bought their line of defense, that's all.
too stupid to know what admonish means. /s
But as you say , judge should have reminded her, although dismissed from the case, the case continues and do not discuss it. I am sure judge reminded the current jurors as they left for the weekend.
Our best bet at getting the seat is if he gets off after a mistrial, runs again and is renominated, which he conceivably could be. Him going to prison doesn’t do much for me if his replacement is another POS.
The several Hispanics on the jury ensure an acquittal
Stupid, stupid jury pool.
I don’t think so; more like a hung jury. I thought even this juror said that; I doubt the Americans on the jury will let him slide.
NJ is quickly filling with Hispanics as Americans flee the state, and most of them view the world through a racial prism. Just as blacks who knew OJ was guilty still applauded his acquittal, many Hispanics will cheer the same for Menendez - just sticking it to whitey.
As a Jewess on the US, I can only point out that the number of women who allegedly DATED, but had no sex with, Roy Moore is EXACTLY the same number who accused President Clinton of FORCIBLE RAPE, a FAR more serious offense. Now we know why all REAL Americans put our 2nd Amendment FIRST. Just sayin’!
I don’t think anyone here felt Sen. Menendez would be convicted. It is after all, New Jersey. This woman’s statements pretty much guarantee a mistrial. In any event, the jury is hung (IMO). What purpose would a re-trial serve?
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