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February 18, 2006
Cotton Guilty: Juror Speaks
Only one Cotton juror stayed in the Federal Building to talk with reporters: Dustin Donahue, the foreman. He said he knew from the start of deliberations that the verdict would take time.
"There was just so much to sift through," he said. "We had a lot of jurors who were very evidence-minded. Some were more evidence-minded than others; that's true in any jury. But I'd say this jury was mostly evidence minded."
Donahue said the deliberations were painstaking. "This is not my first time serving on a jury," he said. "But it is the first time that I've seen a jury go back and listen to the same tape four or five times. To the same bit."
Donahue finished his comments outside the courthouse, where his jacket was little match for the night's wind. He had finished three days of argument, and he was ready to have it complete. "I'm going home," he said, "to drink something warm."
Look for more about the Cotton verdict, and what it took to get there, in this week's edition of The Pulse.
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