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...Juror Jesse Miller said he was surprised that Deaver did not take the stand in his own defense. But he said he didn't know if the outcome would have been different if Deaver had testified...
...only thing we could go on was the evidence," the juror said...
...jurors claimed that there were no racial elements in their decision and that no one should read such implications into it. "We were doing nothing more than what we were charged by the judge to do," said Juror Diana Serpe. "We weren't trying to send a message to the public...
...rape of a pregnant woman. When Ramseur finally refused to answer any more questions, Crane sentenced him to six months in jail for contempt. Crane ordered all of Ramseur's testimony stricken, but his appearance undoubtedly had its effect on the jury. "He had so much pent-up rage," Juror Serpe told the New York Daily News. "He reminded me of a caged animal . . . I had a nightmare about him . . . I woke up feeling drained...
...prosecution's efforts were further damaged, perhaps fatally, in April when Judge John Collins felt it necessary to clarify for Merola the legal theory on which the case would be presented. Merola wanted to broach two theories of what the jurors could consider to be larceny; Collins allowed them to weigh only one. Says a retired Manhattan judge who followed the trial: "It is pretty embarrassing for the prosecutor to have the judge straighten out for him the indictment and the legal theory behind it." The sensation of what was primarily a dozy trial came just after the jury began...