Juror doesn't want to convict a 'black man,' forces mistrial
A Brooklyn juror hearing the case of a motorist accused of manslaughter forced a mistrial Thursday after declaring that she didn’t want to convict a black man.
“I don't want to put a black man in jail. That's crazy,” the middle-aged African American woman, identified as Juror No. 3, told other jurors, according to a note to Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice.
The note capped a chaotic three days of deliberations that saw Juror No. 3 refuse to budge, two jurors complain about her to the judge — and one of them pass out from the behind-the-scenes conflict.
Some jurors said the woman even announced her position on the first day of the trial of Marlon Sewell, who was accused of passing out from a gas leak before fatally striking a 30-year-old pedestrian in Dec. 2015.
“From day one of the trial she made comments like that, but we thought she'd change her mind once we received all the evidence,” said a male juror who declined to be identified outside Brooklyn Supreme Court.
“But no, she refused to listen to anything and made comments like she wasn't paying attention to the whole trial.”
Sewell’s attorney Damien Brown requested a mistrial based on the chaos in the deliberation room.
The judge agreed.
“I feel that based on the juror misconduct during the entire proceedings we cannot go forward with deliberations and I'm going to grant the defense's application of a mistrial,” Del Giudice said.
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A Brooklyn juror hearing the case of a motorist accused of manslaughter forced a mistrial Thursday after declaring that she didn’t want to convict a black man.
“I don't want to put a black man in jail. That's crazy,” the middle-aged African American woman, identified as Juror No. 3, told other jurors, according to a note to Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice.
The note capped a chaotic three days of deliberations that saw Juror No. 3 refuse to budge, two jurors complain about her to the judge — and one of them pass out from the behind-the-scenes conflict.
Some jurors said the woman even announced her position on the first day of the trial of Marlon Sewell, who was accused of passing out from a gas leak before fatally striking a 30-year-old pedestrian in Dec. 2015.
“From day one of the trial she made comments like that, but we thought she'd change her mind once we received all the evidence,” said a male juror who declined to be identified outside Brooklyn Supreme Court.
“But no, she refused to listen to anything and made comments like she wasn't paying attention to the whole trial.”
Sewell’s attorney Damien Brown requested a mistrial based on the chaos in the deliberation room.
The judge agreed.
“I feel that based on the juror misconduct during the entire proceedings we cannot go forward with deliberations and I'm going to grant the defense's application of a mistrial,” Del Giudice said.
(More on the website)
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