My judge who sat on this case is a good friend of mine. Comical that this happened to her:
A juror who wrote sexually explicit letters to a defendant in a murder trial and then visited him at the county jail didn't commit jury misconduct, a judge said Monday.
District Judge Valerie Adair ruled that defendant Ricky Vazquez, 27, won't get a new trial because juror Marnie Ramirez didn't engage in wrongdoing when she contacted Vazquez by mail and in person after the trial.
Vazquez was convicted of second-degree murder in October. Ramirez was a juror for his case. She said previously that she was the holdout on the jury who wanted to convict Ramirez of voluntary manslaughter, a lesser charge.
Ramirez, 21, is married and works as a bank teller. She said she wrote several letters to Vazquez and went to the jail three times to see him. She last visited him on Nov. 26.
In her letters, she tells Vazquez that she's a sex addict and wants to touch him. She also tells Vazquez in the letters that she'll send him photos of herself.
What women see in these guys, I'll never know.
A juror who wrote sexually explicit letters to a defendant in a murder trial and then visited him at the county jail didn't commit jury misconduct, a judge said Monday.
District Judge Valerie Adair ruled that defendant Ricky Vazquez, 27, won't get a new trial because juror Marnie Ramirez didn't engage in wrongdoing when she contacted Vazquez by mail and in person after the trial.
Vazquez was convicted of second-degree murder in October. Ramirez was a juror for his case. She said previously that she was the holdout on the jury who wanted to convict Ramirez of voluntary manslaughter, a lesser charge.
Ramirez, 21, is married and works as a bank teller. She said she wrote several letters to Vazquez and went to the jail three times to see him. She last visited him on Nov. 26.
In her letters, she tells Vazquez that she's a sex addict and wants to touch him. She also tells Vazquez in the letters that she'll send him photos of herself.
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