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Jurors Stun Courtroom With Last-Minute Discovery as Trial Comes to a Close
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Jurors deliberating in a monthlong federal armed robbery trial in Washington, D.C., stumbled onto a key piece of evidence that investigators, prosecutors and defense attorneys had all somehow missed.
It took the jurors themselves to uncover the evidence in the pocket of the defendant’s jacket.
Neither the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, nor Joyner’s defense team had known the items were there.
According to a trial transcript obtained by CNN, the jury foreperson described the moment a juror reached into a jacket’s breast pocket.
Alex Wong/Getty ImagesContreras brought jurors in one by one, telling them the items weren’t part of the case’s evidence; each said they could set the discovery aside.