Edwards jury breaks for weekend alternate juror flirting

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AM I the only one that is amazed and somewhat disgusted?

I thought this crap was just fro Law and Order shows and other such fantasy.

Since we have lot of lawyers I thought they might contribute some discussion to whether this is eerily common or just a freak occurrence?

I just can't imagine given what is known that anyone would be interested in this douchebag.

[Isgrimnur]

Parsing your thread title is like reading an LM brain dump.

For the rest of us, here's a link:

The judge in the John Edwards trial abruptly closed the courtroom Friday to talk to attorneys about an issue with a juror and sent the panel home after six days of deliberations with a stern warning not to talk about the case.

US District Judge Catherine C. Eagles did not indicate what the problem was after meeting with prosecutors and defense lawyers for about 35 minutes, but when she reopened the courtroom, she admonished the jury before dismissing them until Tuesday.
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The jury’s behavior drew attention Thursday when the four alternates all wore canary-yellow shirts. On Friday, they all wore bright red shirts, as did two of the 12 jurors deliberating the case.

One of the alternates, a young woman, has also frequently exchanged smiles with Edwards and nodded enthusiastically during closing arguments last week as the former presidential candidate’s lawyer urged them to find his client not guilty.

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Yea, the original wouldn't fit and my quick parsing was a fail.

[paulbaxter]

This is probably a good time to mention how thankful I am that I didn't get stuck on that jury.

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This is probably a good time to mention how thankful I am that I didn't get stuck on that jury.

Worried you would have trouble not flirting with Edwards?

[paulbaxter]

Lol.

I did get a jury summons to Greensboro just before the trial started, but they never called me up.

[killbot737]

I was on a jury once where a fellow juror was moderately hot. She had a mole on her upper boob with some hair growing out of tit. She was dumb and trashy. Also the boob hair.

btw- Guilty!

[Isgrimnur]

Edwards walks:

Former presidential candidate John Edwards’ legal troubles are over. Judge Catherine Eagles on Wednesday signed an order dismissing all five counts on which a jury had been unable to reach a verdict. The government had asked that the charges be dismissed, eliminating the threat that Edwards could face another trial.

A jury on May 31 acquitted Edwards on one felony count of receiving illegal campaign contributions, but deadlocked on the remaining five counts he misused money from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, while he ran for president.
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In a statement, Edwards' lawyers said:

As we stated in our motions and arguments in court, the novel theory of campaign law violations charged by the Justice Department is not a crime. It should be addressed, if at all, by the Federal Election Commission, which our evidence showed seems to have agreed with our views on the law. While John has repeatedly admitted to his sins, he has also consistently asserted, as we demonstrated at the trial, that he did not violate any campaign law nor even imagined that any campaign laws could apply. We are confident that the outcome of any new trial would have been the same.

[LawBeefaroni]

She had a mole on her upper boob with some hair growing out of tit.

That's redundant. Or Freudian.

[Mr. Fed]

I ask you -- where can John Edwards go to get his reputation back?

Oh, yeah. Hell.