Saturday, September 12, 2009

NY Post: Juror No. 5 Sez Fosamax® Jury Process Tainted


The NY Post (I know!) is running an interview with, and a picture of Fosamax® Juror No. 5. Clearly, Juror No. 5 must have consented to being photographed, and identified -- but I'll not run it here. You may see it there, if you are so inclined. In any event, her account of the pressures inside the jury-room certainly lends credence to my earlier hunch that one juror was effectively intimidating a mostly "silent majority":

. . . ."There were e-mails that Merck knew about these effects since 1999 and they weren't putting any warnings on the drugs," said [Juror No. 5]. "On the first day of deliberations, [the other jurors] were sure Merck was right. . . .

But [Juror No. 5] blamed the "poisonous" environment mostly on juror No. 6. "Nobody had a right to do anything but what this guy wanted," she said. . . .

Indeed -- A "Runaway Jury" scenario. . . .

More here, and here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You shall not utter a false report; nor put your hand with the wicked to be a venal witness. You shall not follow the multitude to do evil; neither shall you bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice. …You shall not wrest the judgment of the poor in his cause. Keep far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not; for I will not justify the wicked. And you shall take no gift; for a gift blinds those that have sight, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Exodus Chapter 23

Cited by Salmon

Condor said...

True 'dat.

Namaste