A Juror’s Question That Went Unanswered: ‘How Dare You Violate That Oath?’
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There were several reasons why it jurors more than 11 hours to reach guilty of judgments in the states of extortion trial version of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the former criminal police because of the participation of eight murders the Mob. The possibility that the defendants were honorable men innocent of all excesses, was not one of them. “We had no doubt about the fact that they were found guilty,” said juror No. 12, a building safety official from Long Island to 50 from its shelves, under the condition of anonymity, because he does not want the World to know what he was up to in recent months. The juror said he found the defendants to be present at many of the murders during carry the identity card of the New York Police Department, the nature horrible. “When you sign an oath, an oath as precious as a policeman, and the duty to protect and serve the man, who is the highest ever swear,” said the juror, echoed the public prosecutor in the case. “It’s like, ‘How are you, against sworn that you received? They turn around and break, and return, and it is time for emotion and not once, do something However, I think I was a little outgoing. ” “When we woke up in the morning and take your wife to kiss,” he added, “and do this, and then to come home and to wake up and take him, without regret, then I am sorry, forgotten. ” The most difficult part of the work, said the juror, has been seen by tens of taxes and to ensure that the Crown had every element of them. It was also difficult, he said, to find that 19 year spree of murder, money laundering, obstruction of justice and other distribution could be considered a single conspiracy, since any conspiracy end, more than five years before the date of the arrest of men in 2005 outside the statute of limitations. However, the jury said that the United States, Office of the lawyer and widely linked the son of the former detectives from the life of crime. Regarding the defence lawyers, the juror gave them clearly mixed reviews. “In my opinion, Ed Hayes - special counsel,” said the juror, Mr. Caracappa lawyer. “I would have him in my corner every day. Maybe, if it is a little more for the work, he would have around him. ” But Mr. Eppolito lawyer, Bruce Cutler, known for his work in cases of organized crime, it is not “very good, a little dramatic for my taste,” said the juror. The jury itself has received good marks for several of the victims’ families. “It’s closure for us,” said 28-year-old girl by Israel Greenwald, whose officials killed in the year 1986. “Finally, justice served,” said the woman, who only their first names, Yael. “It’s a miracle.” The juror said, is seated on a high-profile organized crime has often been the case disturbing. Between the media and other mob mob consistently called, “We were very, very frightened,” he said. But jurors found comfort and security in another. “We went together, we are against each other, we make sure that we knew that everyone was increasingly safe at home,” said the juror. “We did not want to go home and discover the next few days, the shortage, because someone, say, a car on the side of stone.” |