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Juror Is Dismissed From Libby Trial

 
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Juror Is Dismissed From Libby Trial
Juror Is Dismissed From Libby Trial
She Saw Information Outside Court; Panel of 11 to Continue

By Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; A03



The jury considering whether I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is guilty of perjury lost one of its members after nearly three days of deliberation yesterday, but the presiding judge ordered the panel to continue working to reach a decision.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton dismissed the woman, an art curator in her 70s, after she disclosed to her peers that she had come in contact over the weekend with information about the case of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff.

The jury foreperson reported that to Walton, who interviewed the jurors and determined that the female juror had not intentionally sought to ignore his orders to avoid contact with media coverage and all other information about the Libby case.

Walton agreed with a defense request that the jury continue deliberating with 11 members, rebuffing Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who asked the judge call back one of two alternates and begin deliberations again. The jury had been deliberating since Wednesday afternoon.

"I just don't think it would be appropriate to throw away those 2 1/2 days of deliberations," Walton said. "I don't have anything to suggest that this jury is anything but conscientious and can continue."

If the jury were to lose another member, the judge said, he would call upon one of the two remaining alternates and instruct jurors to restart deliberations.

According to courthouse sources, the woman sought information that led her to material about the case over the weekend and realized this morning that it was inappropriate to do so. Courthouse officials said Walton instructed the dismissed juror not to talk to the media until the case concludes.

After the juror was dismissed, the panel completed a fourth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.

Libby, 56, is charged with making false statements, perjury and obstructing a probe into who may have criminally leaked information about undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media in 2003. He is not charged with the leak, but Fitzgerald has accused him of lying to conceal his role in discussing her identity with reporters.

Plame's name and classified CIA role were disclosed in a syndicated column on July 14, 2003, days after her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly accused the administration of twisting intelligence to justify war with Iraq.

On Feb. 8, another juror revealed that she had inadvertently seen a photo and headline about witness Tim Russert, NBC News's Washington bureau chief, in The Washington Post's Style section. Federal marshals have been cutting all references to the trial from jurors' morning newspapers but had missed that story.

During questioning of potential jurors before the trial began, the juror dismissed yesterday said she grew up in New York, attended Syracuse University and Mills College, and obtained a doctorate in art history from the University of London. She said she worked for a decade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a curator of prints and drawings.

In questioning to select a jury, she said she was sympathetic to what would become one of the defense's central contentions: that people can have innocent distortions of their memory.



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02/26/2007 10:39 PM
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Re: Juror Is Dismissed From Libby Trial
Dick Cheney Could be Tossed if Libby is Guilty

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Well, yeah, and George Bush could start speaking the truth when his lips move, but there are startling comments in Blogtopia, linking to credible legal sources, that do indeed stipulate that a Libby perjury conviction is relevant to prosecuting Cheney for crimes. I had no idea a Libby conviction could lead to this, but it’s really there, Dick Cheney could be in real trouble.

The guy polls in the teens, he constantly appears on television with delusional statements, he just threatened Iran again, he childishly stated the British pulling out was progress, his lesbian daughter offends the authoritarian fake moralists in his party, and last year he even shot a guy in the face and said it was the victim’s fault.

In any other time or administration Cheney would have been long gone—everyone knows what would have happened to Al Gore if his chief of staff had been indicted in 1998, he would have been mercilessly hounded out of office even if he had done nothing, and in this case there is ample evidence that Cheney did in fact do a great deal wrong.

The earth is round, Democrats respond, of course this felon is a total disaster who has repeatedly broken the law, right through the California electricity theft in 2000 to lying to start the Iraq war. If justice, reason and truth ever meant anything in this world of course Cheney should have resigned years ago, and of course our whoring media class has completely shielded yet another Bush administration felon, and of course Darth Cheney is seen as the untouchable evil glue that holds the heinous forces of Bush reactionaries together.

Yes, but stranger things have happened. Another extremely interesting notch to add to the detrimental cascade above is Cheney’s unique and extremely debilitating status as a non-successor vice president; it ensures a very nasty primary fight for his party before they even have to think of taking on the Democratic nominee. Bush could toss him to legitimately solve the successor issue.

Humans also, regrettably, love to find scapegoats. If Libby is guilty, Cheney is about to be indicted and bring down the whole party, why, one could easily see Cheney being forced to take the fall and resign in disgrace.

Be prepared for the unexpected on the Republican side in the next ten months. The forces being applied to the party are terrific, and already John McCain is babbling incoherently. Right now the only thing the GOP can do for 2008 is serve good food on the campaign plane, that’s it, and for a party with so much resources and expectations facing so much failure something is going to give.



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Re: Juror Is Dismissed From Libby Trial
from above...


If Libby is guilty, Cheney is about to be indicted and bring down the whole party, why, one could easily see Cheney being forced to take the fall and resign in disgrace.



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