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Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Declining a bribe makes you automatically biased? Huh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes.
Even if I believed someone were innocent, if someone attempted to purchase my vote, I would be personally offended, and immediately view the defendant as untrustworthy. It would bias my judgement.

The article states that the judge removed the jury member from the case and swapped in an alternate. The judge is also sequestering the jury, so they must spend the remainder of the case in a hotel - hopefully avoiding any other attempts to bias the jury.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elmo has no idea how juror selection works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Your comment requires elaboration.

What happened here was jury tampering, and it occurred after jury selection.

How would jury selection factor in?