October 16, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
Virginia News
As former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell continues to push for a new trial against his multiple convictions of public corruption, new information surfaces regarding the juror dismissed mid-trial. The juror, Louis DeNitto Jr., was dismissed by the judge after a private meeting on the 12th day of the trial without public explanation at the time. According to court documents that may have been released in error, the juror called a lawyer he knew and mentioned that he was on the jury of the case. That lawyer immediately called the prosecution to report that DeNitto had spoken to him of the case, even though the conversation did not contain substantive information related to the trial. DeNitto had stated publicly that he would have pushed against convicting the McDonnells.
