The juror should have said it was $100,000.
What, you mean this bag of 80k that somebody dropped at my door? No idea where it came from
I’m shocked that you’d think that any amount of money, even 60k, would get me to compromise my civic duty.
40k is only a years salary for me so idk why they thought that would be anywhere near enough.
This 20k would have really helped me out, but alas, morals.
Somebody suggested that I’d get some money, but I never did. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m late for an appointment at the Ferrari dealership.
This was all beautiful, thank you everyone that pulled through
You’re beautiful.
120k is barely a down payment on a Ferrari.
Definitely not true for a sweet used one
apparently our 20k increments played well on Boing Boing . We did it guys!
Finally, we’re famous.
How do they expect to sway a juror for only $5k?
What bag?
Seriously? You expect me to compromise my morals for 50k?
Or just take the money and still prosecute and never mention the money.
Someone handed out $120,000? wow, I hope they find that money
I have a feeling that one would be swiftly dispatched in this sort of instance.
Take it, gaslight yourself that it doesn’t exist, finish the trial, buy a weeks worth of groceries
I don’t think shopping at Whole Foods would be a good use of that money. The asparagus water just isn’t worth it, you can make it at home.
Why assume it didn’t start as $250k before it got to the news?
If I was the juror in a case of this scale, with all of the political people involved, I would be scared shitless that it was a setup by cops or some other party. I would assume I had been videoed taking the money and would run immediately to hand over every penny.
I figure that once you admit to someone trying to bribe you, that someone’s finances will probably be investigated, and if it seems like they really gave you bunch more and you lied about the amount, that’s potential trouble for you.
You lied or the guy giving you the money took his percentage.
Who are you more likely to believe? The one reporting the crime or the one that committed it?
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In a fraud trial
Chef’s kiss
There should be a law that states that if this happens and you turn them in then you get to keep the money.
Shouldn’t the one person who absolutely should be on the jury be the person reporting a bribery attempt?
No, because they’re automatically biased against the defendant. The goal is no bias, regardless of reason.
Declining a bribe makes you automatically biased? Huh?
Yes.
Even if I believed someone were innocent, if someone attempted to purchase my vote, I would be personally offended, and immediately view the defendant as untrustworthy. It would bias my judgement.The article states that the judge removed the jury member from the case and swapped in an alternate. The judge is also sequestering the jury, so they must spend the remainder of the case in a hotel - hopefully avoiding any other attempts to bias the jury.
Elmo has no idea how juror selection works.
Your comment requires elaboration.
What happened here was jury tampering, and it occurred after jury selection.
How would jury selection factor in?
Personally, I think the bias caused by attempting to bribe a member of the jury would be entirely fair. It should be used as further evidence of guilt in the trial itself. Even if they are innocent of the original charges, they are corrupt and I can’t say I have any problem with removing power from such corruption.
All I know is those horrible people are not guilty. Waiting for my bag of money any moment now.
Why do outsiders have access to jurors in the first place? Was the jury not sequestered?
So the bribe was $240,000, you say?
The article is light on details around the actual cash itself but I have to wonder if it wasn’t counterfeit. If you are, without any type of conversation, randomly trying to pay off jurors that seems like a lot of real money to just blindly throw at the problem and hope it goes away.
Even $5k or $10k could be a life-changing amount of money for some people, seems like it would be easier/cheaper to start there (if it’s real) then promise more on a specific outcome.
It’s not like your average person would be able to tell a real from a fake bill…
Your lawyers know quite a bit about the jurors, including economic status. You scale your bribes to the general income range.
C’mon, man… this is bribery 101.
I flunked out of crime school and never got past remedial bribery.
They’re keeping the jury, that’s a bad idea. Who knows if anyone accepted.
