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...shooting while on the witness stand. His emotionless testimony made it easier for prosecutors to charge that the killing was a cold-blooded act that had nothing to do with mercy. Said one observer: "He didn't cry, didn't pour out his feelings in soap-opera fashion." The jurors also seemed to be affected adversely by Gilbert's decision to put two bullets into his wife. "We gave him charity on the first shot," said Juror Rosalyn Brodsky. "He was upset and overcome psychologically. But it was the second bullet that did it. That was premeditated." Added Juror Susan...
...Loatch also said that she and one other juror initially felt that TIME should be found to have acted with malice, but Foreman Zug argued that Halevy must have believed the appendix contained the disputed information. "We did not think he would have said it if he were not 100% certain," said Burdick. "He knew it could be checked the next morning by everyone in Israel who had access to that report." Ultimately, according to De Loatch, the jury believed that Halevy "wasn't actually out to get Sharon. He didn't make up the story, and he actually believed...
Judge Robert Takasugi added to the jurors' skepticism when in a final instruction he told them to look carefully at Hoffman's testimony. "The judge told us to weigh his background," said |one juror. "I did, and I discarded a lot." Add to this a stumbling performance by the Government's own agents, one of whom admitted destroying or altering some of his notes on the case, and the outcome was not surprising. De Lorean was also helped by his clean record. Most jurors concluded that the automaker had been lured by Hoffman into a crime...
...This was an attempt to send a message that this type of conduct in investigations and arrests will not be tolerated," Defense Attorney Weitzman declared of the decision. The jurors confirmed that for some of them at least, this was the case. "The whole thing makes me angry," said Juror Jo Ann Kerns, a department-store assistant manager. "What they did to De Lorean could happen to anyone. That's the message. People should understand that." Foreman William Lahr, an insurance claims adjuster, reported that the jury hoped the verdict "would indicate to the Government that they should...
...trial of Automaker John Z. De Lorean on cocaine-trafficking charges was nearly short-circuited last week by eight white envelopes. Six jurors and two alternates in the ten-week-old trial acknowledged that they had received unsolicited copies of a House report that was highly critical of the kind of FBI "sting" operation that snared De Lorean. The material came from the office of California Congressman Don Edwards, chairman of the subcommittee that prepared the study. Edwards said the copies were posted in response to what seemed a routine request from a San Francisco letter writer to forward...