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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a fan of Roger Stone.  Given what is coming out about the jury, particularly the jury foreperson who actually posted derogatory information on social media regarding Roger Stone BEFORE the trial, the verdict should be thrown out.  This is egregious.  This person should have never been accepted as a juror.  [/quote]
Stone already petitioned the judge to do that and the judge said no. [/quote]

And, now that  evidence of  a lack of  impartiality on the part of the foreperson has been revealed along with the fact that one juror was a member of the Obama admin, this decision should  be revisited.  [/quote]
You think the judge didn’t know that?[/quote]

Neither someone being a member of the Obama administration or donating to a random Democratic candidate (that the latter has even been mentioned as disqualifying is farcical) is even remotely disqualifying unless they lied about it. For marginal cases like the former, Stone had strikes that he could have used and didn't. There's no way the juror's former occupation didn't come up on the jury questionnaire in this kind of trial. In terms of the foreperson, if she actually made statements on FB indicating that she thought Stone was guilty (and I have no idea if she did or not), that could be a problem if she was asked questions that should have elicited that information and she didn't provide it OR she lied about it. If she was not asked any questions related to the postings, it will not be deemed relevant (otherwise it would incentivize lawyers not to ask questions and then to sandbag after the fact). If she did mention the postings or the information the postings conveyed, no problem if defense didn't object at the time. IF they did object and she was seated over their objection, some chance of an issue.[/quote]

The defense tried to have her stricken as a juror, but the judge allowed her.  Speaks volumes.  [/quote]

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