A juror dismissed from the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) after she told the judge her father had died in California admitted in court today that her excuse had been a lie: She actually left town to attend a horse race.U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan declined to sanction the juror, Marian Hinnant, 52, of Northeast Washington, and allowed her to return to work after a short hearing.A.J. Kramer, the federal public defender, represented Hinnant at the hearing and told the judge that Hinnant had been in such "a state of mind" that she could not continue deliberations.Hinnant, holding a large packet of hand-written notes, then gave a rambling statement that involved wiretaps, horses and drugs in Kentucky before Sullivan stopped her. The judge had ordered Hinnant to appear at today's hearing because he has been unable to reach her since she was dismissed from the panel.On Oct. 23, a day after the jury began deliberations, Hinnant told Sullivan that she had to leave town because her father had died in California. Deliberations were suspended.After Sullivan was unable to reach Hinnant by phone over the next few days, he replaced her with an alternate. Deliberations resumed on Oct. 27 and the jury convicted Stevens that afternoon of seven counts of lying on financial disclosure forms to hide receipt of about $250,000 in gifts and renovations to his Alaska home.Hinnant told reporters outside the courthouse that she believed Stevens was guilty "like all the other" politicians, but refused to say whether she would have voted to convict him. Later she told the Anchorage Daily News that she would have voted to convict the senator.She said she did not expect the trial to last so long and had purchased her airline tickets and tickets to the Breeders' Cup months ago.
bitch should've just stayed in the kitchen
Wow, good thing the judge dismissed her.
i went to the breeder's cup, bet the field against curlin in the last race and ended up $27 ahead for the weekend (not including $900 in travel expenses)