Judge's Argument For Dismissing 12th Juror Doesn't Hold Water
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
When he explained why he dismissed a dissident juror in the Chaka Fattah case, U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III advanced an argument that doesn't hold water.
"There have been only approximately four hours of deliberation," the judge declared on June 16th in a memorandum released last month, after lawyers for Th…