10-30-2010, 10:20 AM
stupid cow.
NEW HAVEN — The jury in the penalty phase of the Steven J. Hayes triple-murder case lost another member Friday, after a court clerk told Judge Jon C. Blue she overheard one juror tell another that statements being made by a witness or defense attorney were “bullshit.”
With the rest of the jury absent, Blue asked the juror who was the recipient of the comment to confirm what the clerk said she had heard. The juror did so.
Defense attorney Thomas Ullmann then asked that the juror who made the remark, Joanne Bruneau, be dismissed. Blue agreed.
“I need to make sure the jury is impartial,” Blue said. “The remark is clearly improper.”
Blue called Bruneau into the courtroom and told her he was sorry, but he would have to let her go. She accepted his decision with a nod and departed, leaving just one alternate and 12 regular jurors.
Blue later told the remaining jurors that, because of longer-than-anticipated questioning of witnesses this week, he no longer thinks they will begin deliberating Monday or Tuesday.
NEW HAVEN — The jury in the penalty phase of the Steven J. Hayes triple-murder case lost another member Friday, after a court clerk told Judge Jon C. Blue she overheard one juror tell another that statements being made by a witness or defense attorney were “bullshit.”
With the rest of the jury absent, Blue asked the juror who was the recipient of the comment to confirm what the clerk said she had heard. The juror did so.
Defense attorney Thomas Ullmann then asked that the juror who made the remark, Joanne Bruneau, be dismissed. Blue agreed.
“I need to make sure the jury is impartial,” Blue said. “The remark is clearly improper.”
Blue called Bruneau into the courtroom and told her he was sorry, but he would have to let her go. She accepted his decision with a nod and departed, leaving just one alternate and 12 regular jurors.
Blue later told the remaining jurors that, because of longer-than-anticipated questioning of witnesses this week, he no longer thinks they will begin deliberating Monday or Tuesday.