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Bob Nixon's avatar

As someone who hasn’t followed either trial closely, I appreciate your addressing of this issue. It is refreshing to see integrity in reporting.

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Arlene's avatar

It is difficult to remember all names and a variety of witnesses. If after you are released from your obligations you look up stuff and that can be confusing to remember and identify folks. Also that was a loooong trial.. That happened to a recent juror in another widely popluar case. Especially when there is more than one trial or trials of the same person for different charges.

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kathy Leung's avatar

Great explanation!

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Jon M's avatar

I'm glad you kept it in. Shows you are an award winning journalist!! The truth is always the best way to go!!

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Simon Tee's avatar

Thank you Jess, you are excellent as always.

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Lisa's avatar

I do.

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Anthony Amore's avatar

I don’t buy it.

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jill c's avatar

The 2 girls look like they could be same person. Remember when we all thought Proctor had been at autopsy? There were a lot of cops that looked the same lol.

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Brenda Bergstrom's avatar

I can't even remember my own phone number half the time! How is anyone expected to remember the names of every witness during a 3 month trial? I believe her and you. Ignore the trolls in here. They will try to poke holes in everything any juror has to say. They just can't handle the fact that we FREED KAREN READ!!!

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Elizabeth R.'s avatar

Based off all thr things Paula has said since your interview, I dont believe a word she said. She has brought of things and evidence that impacted her NG decsion ....that were NOT even mentioned in T2. She brought up evidence that jurors were told to ignore. I will.lwave my other personal opinions abt J11 to myself - but I do not believe for 1 second a "true crime junkie" doesnt know abt the biggest case in the country that happens to be in her county and its trial #2. She is a liar, a fake and a phony.

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Beth K's avatar

Regardless…. The evidence showed JO was not hit by a car. End of story for defense. LE did zero investigating of this. It’s all n them, not the jurors.

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Elizabeth R.'s avatar

This is the problem with you people, you cant see past anything other than your own narrative. My comment has NOTHING to do with whether she hit him or not (imo she did). This has EVERYTHING to do with jury integrity and being honest from the beginning. It's ALL her grifting interviews. She has openly admited to things that helped her in her verdict that were never mentioned in T2, her most trustworthy witness never testified, openly admitted to driving by the Courthouse, saw ppl wearing pink and Free TB signs but then says she had no idea, her 1st tweet was to TB, the list goes on and on. This true crime junkie lied. And I 100% know for a fact that if it was a G verdict you too would not be happy (i mean you FKR ppl make up stuff to discredit every single person). So again since read might be hard, this has NOTHING to do with NG verdict and EVERYTHING to do with jury integrity bc I bet if you or someone you know who was on trial you would want a fair honest jury.

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Beth K's avatar

You people? People who use critical thinking skills and don’t persevere on one innocuous irrelevant thing? Yeah.. I am one of those people: people who use critical thinking skills and common sense.

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Beth K's avatar

If you think one juror influenced the other 11 then you most likely believe pigs can fly. The real evidence swayed the jury. It’s exhausting to listen to people go on and on about this nothing. Even with a biased judge and a prosecutor who did everything and anything they could do to influence the verdict the jury saw through it all. Where’s your outrage about the obvious bias from the judge? Where’s your outrage with all of the improper things the prosecutor did? Yeah… it’s clear you are one of those that will grasp at anything to keep up the “Karen is guilty “ narrative. It’s getting old.

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Elizabeth R.'s avatar

Did I say that NO. Reading is clearly to difficult for you. Basic thinking is also to difficult for you. Again for Beth K who is not to bright, intelligent or smart .. this has nothing to do with the verdit and everything to do with a truthful unbiased jury system. This is a legal procedure and fundamental right procedure you dummy. 1 juror who lies their way into a jury is bad. And since you are not that smart and you equate everything to the small mind of yours abt G or NG .... how would you feel if ONE juror went into trial thinking she was guilty? Again for the dummy, this is bad for all parties involved. Those who lie there way on to a jury & turn around to make a profit is not how we want our legal system to be

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