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George Blyther, 38, was the first to offer an opinion. "Not guilty because of insanity," he said. Jackson said that he leaned toward guilty. So did most of the women, including the only white juror, Merryanna Swartz. Some observers thought that Swartz, 31, might be pivotal because she works as a pathology researcher and has dealt with disturbed adolescents. But she remained generally quiet, and shifted her vote to not guilty over the course of the deliberations. As the discussion progressed, everyone agreed that they were still far from decided. "So we took out the evidence and put our personal...
...hard on you?" one juror asked the foreman, Jackson, the next morning. "No, it ain't hard," he replied. "Maybe someone else should do it," said one member, pointing out Jackson's stutter. The retired janitor agreed. He was promptly replaced by Coffey, at 22 the youngest juror, who was now firmly convinced of Hinckley's innocence. The deliberations began to stumble toward a conclusion...
...prosecutor, with his moralistic oratory and his psychiatrist, who essentially agreed with the defense case, was no match for Litman. "In the end," a juror summed up, "it came down to whether . . . you went with your instincts or your heart." Bonnie's mother Joan had a different interpretation: "If you have a $30,000 defense fund, a Yale connection and a clergy connection, you're entitled to one free hammer murder...
...held no such sway over the jury. The seven men and five women deliberated for more than 37 hours but needed only one vote to reach a verdict. Said Juror Constance F. Jenrette, a laid-off factory worker: "Everything just fit together all of a sudden." They apparently were persuaded by the prosecution argument that Von Bülow wanted to kill Sunny so he could marry another woman, New York Socialite Alexandra Isles, 36, without losing his share of his wife's $75 million fortune. In 1979 and again in 1980, Sunny lapsed into comas, the second irreversible...
...Fusco as an all ECAC defenseman, but yesterday the redheaded sophomore earned a more important distinction. After hours of deliberation, Fusco was named as a defenseman on our all-Irish squad. The deliberation was to decide whether he belonged on the Irish or the Italian team, and frankly, this juror was swayed by the testimony of Mrs. Fusco, the former Joanne Mahoney, Congratulation, Mark...