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...support among his mostly black constituents. At one point, he accused the Government of not only entrapping him but also actually trying to kill him with a potentially lethal dose of cocaine. He predicted that he could never be convicted because "in this town, all it takes is one juror saying 'I'm not going to convict Marion Barry. I don't care what...
...addition, Assistant District Attorney George Fisher and defense attorney Willie Davis were allowed to remove six potential jurors apiece without giving any reason. The attorneys' selections were whispered to a court clerk, making it impossible to determine which lawyer was eliminating a particular juror...
Davis, Fisher and Chernoff eventually settled on 14 country residents to decide the case. Two of the 14 are alternates, who will hear the evidence against Watkins but will not participate in deliberations unless another juror is excused during the trial...
...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...