Why the use of air quotes when you refer to state’s “evidence”?
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Do jury instructions normally include the term “witch hunt”?
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Jurors #6 and #11 want to know, “What would Judge Pirro do?”
Clearly the jury foreman is not a doctor or an engineer.
I wonder whose job it was to coordinate the exhibits with the charges/counts.
That would have been fucking helpful.
Cursive isn’t dead!
I can’t read anything but partial phrases from these jury notes Do I need to be on Twitter?. Anyway, thanks for sharing these snippets - not terribly affirming about jurors’ objectivity. (but I guess we should be grateful they arrived at 8 guilty verdicts.)
When I read “Jury Notes” I was hoping to see the notes some of the jurors took during presentation and arguments. Instead this is the notes to the judge; FWIW in my untrained opinion looks like a woman’s handwriting, which suggests the foreperson was a woman. (though my handwriting is so bad I might ask for help if I were in that role)
I read an interview with one TRUMPCO fan who was on the jury–and it sure sounds like there were quite a few of them seated on this jury. It is a miracle that they were able to get a consensus on 8 counts with a wad of drooling Trump sycophants.
WaPo Headline this morning:
Lone Holdout on Manafort Jury Blocked Conviction on All Counts, Juror Says
The juror who spoke out, she’s identified by name in the article, criticized attorneys on both sides. She said the prosecutors looked bored throughout their case (“I saw them napping during the trial”), and the defense lawyers should have done something (“I think I would like to have heard a little more from the defense” and “they objected to very little, and appeared agreeable throughout it all.” She also said that Rick Gates was a serious turn off for the jury. The thing that sold the 11 sensible members of the jury was the documentary evidence.
My takeaways: Gates is not sympathetic, and Judge Ellis’ interjections probably underlined that and influenced the jury; the paper trail is key, and Judge Ellis made it clear that he wasn’t interested in following that trail, which, again didn’t serve the jury well.
Let’s hope Judge Jackson (who has impressed me thus far) does a better job than Ellis in DC next month.