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Black Sunday fire trial decision postponed
Quick ReadSome legal experts have expressed concerns about jurors using Facebook and Twitter to sway verdicts and to access news about their trials.
Photo credit: Newsday File / Patrick E. McCarthy | Karen Krell walks toward the courtroom of Judge Margaret Clancy. (July 30, 2009)
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Bronx State Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy will not decide until Feb. 10 whether to throw out convictions in last winter's Black Sunday fire trial because a juror contacted a witness while deliberations were underway. A decision had been expected Monday.
Juror Karen Krell, a schoolteacher, admitted in July that she disobeyed jury instructions by e-mailing firefighter Brendan Cawley...
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