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Manafort juror: One 'holdout' prevented jury from convicting Manafort on all 18 counts | TheHill

posted onAugust 23, 2018
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Article snippet: A juror who sat on former Trump campaign chairman MORE's case said on Fox News Wednesday night that only one juror prevented a ruling on all 18 counts against Manafort Paula Duncan said a lone juror could not come to a guilty verdict on 10 charges, ultimately leading T.S. Ellis III to declare a mistrial on 10 of Manafort's 18 counts. A jury convicted Manafort on Tuesday of eight counts of tax and bank fraud, including five charges of filing false income tax returns, one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud. Ellis declared a mistrial on three counts of failing to report foreign bank accounts, five counts of bank fraud conspiracy and two counts of bank fraud. Duncan identified herself as a Trump supporter and said she had hoped Manafort was innocent. But, Duncan said she was convinced of Manafort's guilt after seeing four full boxes of evidence from special counsel MORE’s legal team. Duncan, who said she is a Trump supporter and that she had hoped Manafort would not be found guilty, said deliberations were heated, evening bringing some jurors to tears. Though Duncan said the jury was not political in its conviction, she said she was skeptical of prosecutors’ intentions, which she implied were political. Duncan said jurors never explicitly deliberated on Manafort's ties to Trump. “Certainly Mr. Manafort got caught breaking the law, but he wouldn’t have gotten caught if they weren’t after he tweeted Wednesday morning. -- Updat... Link to the full article to read more

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