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trial, a juror who gave several media interviews after the conviction was accused by
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and to influence the outcome. Legal scholars believe that lawyers can identify stealth jurors by paying close attention to non-verbal behavior connected with deception and identifying discrepancies between answers to oral
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said: "It is our subjective opinion that she was a stealth juror, that she specifically wanted to be on this jury." Juror dishonesty on questionnaires threatened the six-month-long federal corruption trial of former
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is about a stealth juror who—having made very meticulous, year-long preparations—serves in a tobacco-related case and by a variety of tricks manages to get other members of the jury to vote the way he intended. The
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members can and should increase their odds of getting on a jury by telling the prosecutors what they want to hear, without actually lying. Jurors who lie to get on a jury can be charged with such offenses as
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these types of transactions" were used by the lawyers for the defendants to argue that the verdict was tainted by this juror's alleged agenda to convict.
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