8/23/208

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The one juror who prevented a conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on all 18 criminal charges did not trust any of the witnesses and exasperated other members with her reasoning, a juror in the trial told Reuters. The comments from Paula Duncan, the only juror so far to speak out after Tuesday’s [8-21-18] verdict in Alexandria Virginia, offered fresh insight into how the jury of six men and six women reached a consensus on 8 charges while deadlocking on the other 10 counts. The judge declared a mistrial on the 10 counts. Duncan, 54, a Trump supporter, told Reuters in a phone interview that she believed Manafort had been ‘targeted’ and ‘harassed’ by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team but that politics did not influence how she considered the evidence. She also said politics did not play a role with other jurors. Duncan said the other jurors were frustrated with the holdout, who prevented them from reaching a consensus to convict on seven of nine counts of bank fraud and three of four counts of failing to declare foreign bank accounts.”

Nathan Layne, “Manafort juror said one holdout ‘exasperated’ others with her logic,” Reuters, August 23, 2018 10:32 am