Ted Stevens Trial: Juror #4 Lied to the Judge

[sunnystarr]

WASHINGTON -- Juror No. 4 in Sen. Ted Stevens' federal corruption trial, otherwise known as Marian Hinnant, did not leave to attend her father's funeral in California, as she told the judge.

Instead, Hinnant had a plane ticket to see the Breeder's Cup at the Santa Anita race track and didn't want to miss it, she told the judge this morning, in what sounded like completely irrational and perhaps even delusional remarks.

"I just wanted to go to the Breeder's Cup," she told reporters after a hearing the judge held to find out why she left town and lost contact with him, forcing him to replace her as a juror just hours before the jury found Stevens guilty.

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/stevens/story/576884.html

Guess she just didn't wanna pony up for her civic duty lol.

[Ian David]

1. What are the odds she gets jail time? n/t

[chelsea0011]

2. I was watching one newscast that mentioned a juror "didn't show up"

for the trial one day because she had a funeral of her father to attend. I thought it was odd about the phrasing "didn't show up" as to excused. Now I get it.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Just what the Tedbots needed for their "mistrial" delusion...

Good thing there was an alternate available.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. She was replaced with an alternate, it won't impact the verdict.

Too bad for Stevens, she sounds like a Republican.

[kwassa]

5. this is too damn funny

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Her lawyer, federal public defender A.J. Kramer, tried to keep her from saying much in court, telling the judge only that "her state of mind was such that she had to go to California."

"She apologizes to the court. In fact, her father did not die," Kramer said. "The story about her father was just one that popped into her head."

But Hinnant cut in, and in a thick Kentucky drawl, gave a rambling, incoherent and baffling monologue about her former employers in the horseracing industry in Kentucky. She mentioned drugs, wiretaps and horseracing, but made little sense.

"I'm not the one who was selling the drugs, I'm not the one who was doing the drugs," she said.

[sunnystarr]

6. I thought it was hysterical too rofl .... (nt)

[LeftishBrit]

7. Sounds like she should have been rejected for jury service from the beginning

Obviously it was easy for that lie to 'just pop into her head' because there was nothing much else in her head!