Juror in Oath Keepers trial reveals secrets from the deliberation room

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/28/juror-oath-keepers-trial-cspan-00089277

Jurors in the recently concluded trial of six Oath Keeper affiliates were “horrified” by a defense attorney’s effort to provoke his autistic client into a “breakdown” on the witness stand, one of those jurors said Tuesday in a newly released interview.

A woman who helped decide the fate of the six defendants sat last week for a 90-minute interview with C-SPAN — her employer of 32 years — just two days after the jury completed its work. She provided extraordinary details about the tense closed-door deliberations that resulted in four defendants being convicted of obstructing Congress for their role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Identified only as Ellen, the juror told C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb that several members of the jury cried in the courtroom while they watched one of those defendants, William Isaacs, take the stand under grilling from his own attorney. The jury interpreted the strategy as a “stunt” designed to accentuate Isaacs’ struggle with autism, she said.

“His defense attorney tried to get him to fall apart by yelling at him and not letting him wear his headset,” Ellen recalled. “He was torturing his client to get us to feel sympathy.”

What was worse, the juror recalled, was that the judge ultimately instructed the jury not to consider Isaacs’ autism as a defense against his potential crimes, which meant the entire spectacle had been “a waste of time.”

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[2naSalit]

1. Sounds like some...

Desperation going on with the defense attorney.

[FakeNoose]

2. The 4 Oath Keepers who were found guilty

... Sandra Parker, Laura Steele, Connie Meggs and William Isaacs, and they were all convicted of conspiracy to obstruct Congress’ Jan. 6 proceedings. The four were also found guilty of several other charges they faced, including destruction of government property.

The other 2 were Bennie Parker and Michael Greene, who weren't convicted of the more serious charges. Both men, however, were convicted of misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building.