Word: juror
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jurors I interviewed seemed less than rock solid in their conviction too. "I don't feel what they did was jailworthy," one juror told me. Said another: "I felt bad about this whole thing, to tell you the truth. I don't feel like we did the right thing." Yet, oddly, one could argue things actually did work out about right...
Despite U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell's specific instructions to the contrary, that defense proved persuasive to the jury of nine women and three men, all black, all working class, all chosen for their ignorance of North's celebrated 1987 congressional testimony. Declared juror Earl Williams: "I think there were people higher up who gave him the authority to do a lot of things, and then when he got caught out there high and dry, no one came to help him." Added jury forewoman Denise Anderson: "North was used and abused...
...lead juror is 34-year-old hospital clerk Denise Anderson, who said during pre-trial questioning that she does not like news and that the extensive television coverage given North's testimony during the 1987 congressional hearings "made me mad... I did not look...
McKie, an alternate juror who commented in an interview with CBS News, touched on one of North's major defenses, that he was authorized...
...said, `If you don't do this we're going to fire you," the alternate juror said. In his instructions, Gesell had told the jury to remember that no one, including the president, had the right to order an unlawful...