08-23-2018, 10:55 AM
(08-21-2018, 04:57 PM)Duchess Wrote: The president's former campaign chairman has been found guilty of 8 felony counts.
I saw a member of the Virginia Manafort jury, Paula Duncan, interviewed last night. She said that there was one hold out regarding the 10 counts on which the jury hung.
No matter how hard the rest of the jury tried and showed the hold out juror the document evidence, that sole juror wouldn't budge.
Duncan described herself as an avid Trump supporter who wanted Manafort to be innocent. She seemed to be swayed by the defense's argument (which aligns with the claims in the tweets that Trump sends out frequently) that Manafort wouldn't have been on trial at this time had he not been connected to Trump.
Duncan also said the document evidence made it clear that Manafort was guilty as charged on all counts and that some of the jurors felt Rick Gates couldn't be trusted because he'd 'flipped' on Manafort and taken a plea deal. In the end, the jurors agreed to disregard Gates' testimony altogether and focused on the paper evidence.
Duncan noted that the prosecutors sometimes seemed bored and like they were cat-napping.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/...ounts.html