>>> In April 2002, US Rep. James Traficant was found guilty of ten felonies having to do with bribery and racketeering. He was soon expelled from the House of Representatives and is now in prison for eight years. However, juror Leo Glaser says:

"I know it's after the fact, but now I believe that there's no doubt that the government was out to get him, and if they want you, they'll find enough evidence to make you believe that the Earth is flat."

What changed Glaser's mind? Virginia executive Richard Detore says prosecutors pressured him to lie and claim that he had bribed Traficant. Detore refused to testify to bribery, and he wasn't allowed to testify that he had allegedly been threatened to commit perjury. If Glaser had known this, he would've voted against conviction. He says:

"It would have given me reasonable doubt."

[Source: "Traficant juror changes his mind; now convinced conviction was wrong" by Sabrina Eaton and John Caniglia. Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 20 July 2002.]

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