A federal judge in New Orleans on Thursday blasted defense lawyers in a high-profile criminal case for interviewing jurors after their guilty verdict.
Doing so may have violated his instructions to the jurors not to discuss their verdict even after the trial had concluded, suggested U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. He called the interviews “inappropriate and contrary to the law of this district and circuit,” reports Reuters.
But at the same time Duval also vacated the obstruction conviction last year of BP engineer Kurt Mix and granted him a new trial based on the defense attorney juror interviews. They revealed that the forewoman of the jury had told others, during deliberations, about an elevator conversation she had overheard, in an effort to sway their opinions, according to the Advocate and Reuters. Read More
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