wstüssyb wrote:
Oh my bad....in the history of mankind a jury has never been bribed...
I SERVED Federal Jury Duty in 1985 for a drug kingpin murderer. This was the SECOND trial as the first trial, was a MISTRIAL, because the "accused", Peanut King...had threatened to murder the witnesses and jurors of the first trial, and he DID kill one witness from the 1st trial.
Lucky me got to serve a month jury duty, and he tried to throw the trial again so he could get off on a technicality.
Every day, he would jump up in his chair, stare down each of us jurors and scream "I'm Gonna Kill Every One Of You"!
Every day the judge & baliffs would stop the proceedings and charge him with contempt.
Every day, the judge would call us jurors in his chambers to ask if we were "influenced" and thus now subjective. Well of course we were.
But we jurors took a pact in the jurors' chambers/room to say to the judge..we were NOT "influenced"..so that this slug could be convicted, which we did do to him. Found his ass guilty as sin.