By Steve Rhodes
“What [the other] jurors are being too polite to say is that that one holdout juror was somehow just, I mean, crazy,” Rob Wildeboer of WBEZ said on Chicago Tonight on Wednesday night.
“Not crazy obviously, but given what the evidence showed, how could that person not – it was overwhelming evidence and they all agreed on it, how could she not see what they all saw. There’s no real good reason that any of the jurors have given for why that holdout juror was a holdout juror.”
Indeed. And according to the form she filled out when she went through jury selection, she even listens to NPR!
“She had a different interpretation of the facts as they were set upon us, and it didn’t gibe with the rest of us,” juror Robert Schindler told Phil Ponce in a separate segment.
Is the holdout juror – Jo Ann Chiakulas of Willowbrook – nuts? Or did she simply pay too much attention to seeing Blago on Leno – which she did – than to the jury instructions and the government’s wiretaps?
Posted on August 20, 2010