Friday, December 14, 2007

Hamas-sympathizing juror behind terror mistrial :: Jihad Watch

"May have misled prosecutors during jury selection." More on the Holy Land Foundation jihad terror funding trial's jury bully from WorldNetDaily.com (thanks to all who sent this in):

A Hamas-sympathizing juror may have misled U.S. prosecutors about his neutrality during jury selection in the nation's largest terror-financing trial, investigators familiar with the case say.

The juror's "browbeating" of fellow jurors during deliberations in the Holy Land Foundation trial led to a mistrial, they say. The Dallas-based charity and its leaders are accused of funneling more than $12 million to Hamas suicide bombers and their families.

WND has learned that prosecutors, who are preparing to retry the case next year, considered investigating the juror for perjury after hearing complaints from other jurors about his pro-Hamas, anti-Israeli bias and obscenity-laced bullying in the jury room.

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