The man's statements to the news media after Ms. Maxwell's conviction have clouded the guilty verdict in the case.
Asked if he had hoped to be selected, he replied: “I did not hope to be on this jury. At the start of the hearing, Judge Nathan asked Juror 50 if he had answered the question about sexual abuse accurately, and he said no. Judge Nathan asked whether he had been concerned with following her instructions during jury selection. But I did not set out in order to get on this jury.” Asked if he harbored any bias toward Ms. Maxwell, Juror 50 said no. He told his mother about it when he was in high school, and she called the police, he said, but no charges were brought. “It doesn’t define me,” he said. Ms. Maxwell, in navy prison scrubs, sat with her lawyers across the courtroom. She gave Ms. Maxwell’s lawyers and the government until March 15 to file written arguments based on the hearing. Juror 50, who identified himself during jury selection as a Manhattan resident in his mid-30s, wore a blue button-down shirt under a dark sweater. But a judge can examine statements jurors made during the selection phase. “I didn’t lie in order to get on this jury.”
Judge Alison Nathan questions juror number 50 about his answers on the juror questionnaire as Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell listens in a courtroom ...
David said that he was inspired by the courage of the victims who testified and that, considering he didn’t use his full name in the interviews and only has a small social media following, he didn’t think friends and family would see the coverage or link it to him. “To be clear,” Nathan wrote in a court filing last month, “the potential impropriety is not that someone with a history of sexual abuse may have served on the jury. David told Nathan that when he was nine and 10 years old, his stepbrother and one of his stepbrother’s friends sexually abused him. When he was filling out the form, he saw other people finishing up and wondered why he was taking so long. He was distracted by noise and the crowd of potential jurors, saying he sat twiddling his thumbs for hours as he pondered a recent breakup. The man, identified as Juror 50 in court documents and as Scotty David (his first and middle names) in interviews he has given, told several reporters in January that his own experience of being sexually abused helped shape the deliberations.
A juror on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial tells a judge he did not disclose the childhood abuse he endured because he "skimmed through" the preselection ...
"This is a terrible excuse, but I really didn't think I'd be chosen. "I did not hope to be on this jury," the juror said. A juror in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial has faced a hearing over his failure to disclose a history of child abuse — a revelation that has prompted Maxwell's defence team to push for a retrial.
Juror 50 in the Maxwell sex abuse trial says he didn't mean to leave out his child sex abuse on jury form, leaving the defense calling for a new trial.
NEW YORK — A juror told a judge Tuesday that failing to disclose his child abuse history during jury selection at the trial of British socialite Ghislaine ...
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