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- <text id=89TT1697>
- <title>
- July 03, 1989: American Notes:Iran-Contra
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 03, 1989 Great Ball Of Fire:Angry Sun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- IRAN-CONTRA
- Juror on Trial
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Throughout the trial of former National Security Council
- aide Oliver North, the jury was the focus as often as the
- defendant. The jurors, all working-class blacks, became the
- butt of jokes because of their acknowledged ignorance about the
- Iran-contra affair. Last week one jury member was back in the
- news, seven weeks after voting to convict North of obstructing
- Congress, unlawfully destroying Government documents and
- accepting an illegal gift. A defense allegation of misconduct by
- a juror persuaded U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell to
- postpone North's sentencing until July 5.
- </p>
- <p> Juror Tara Leigh King, 34, a photocopier operator, admitted
- having used marijuana and crack but said she stopped four months
- before the trial began. The defense argues that the possibility
- that she might have been under the influence of narcotics during
- the trial called into question the fairness of the proceedings.
- North's lawyers also claimed that King failed to disclose during
- jury selection that members of her family had arrest records,
- including an armed-robbery conviction of a brother. Gesell will
- hold a hearing this week, but the defense tactics are likely to
- win North only a short respite before he receives his sentence.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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