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Jury in John White trial boiled with tension

Inside the John White jury room, the tension got so high at one point that a juror punched a wall, and another slammed a bathroom door so hard the courtroom walls shook. Jurors asked him to go to an adjoining room to cool off. After four days, Francois Larche thought he and his fellow jurors finally had agreed on only one thing: This jury was hung.

Then, at about 8:30 p.m. that Saturday,...

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