This is a Pretty “Fecal” Story
Dennis Jansen of the University of Minnesota Law blogs on No. 634. He picked up on an amusing story posted on Twitter by Omar Ha-Redeye,
Oh my goodness. From a tweet from Omar Ha-Redeye:
SAN DIEGO — A mistrial was declared Monday when a home-invasion robbery suspect smeared human feces on his attorney’s face then threw more at the jury.
Weusi McGowan, 37, was upset because San Diego Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Fraser refused to remove Deputy Alternate Public Defender Jeffrey Martin from the case, prosecutor Christopher Lawson said.
At the mid-morning break, McGowan produced a plastic baggie filled with fecal matter and spread it on Martin’s hair and face, then flung the excrement toward the jury box, hitting the briefcase of juror No. 9 but missing the juror himself.
And the ringer:
“That juror didn’t even see it coming,” Lawson said.
