Will 12th Juror Flap Keep Chaka Out Of Jail?
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
Lawyers for former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah are arguing that he should stay out of jail while an appeals court decides whether Judge Harvey Bartle III abused his authority by dismissing a dissident juror who didn't think that the government had proved its political corruption case against Fattah beyond a reasonable …