NEW YORK
New York Post
By JOSH SAUL
Last Updated: 7:30 PM, December 7, 2012
One of the alternate jurors released today from serving on the explosive sex trial of a prominent Hasidic leader said she would have voted to acquit — and two other dismissed jurors said they would only have voted to convict him on some of the charges.
“I didn’t have enough evidence to nail the person. No video, no DNA,” said the juror, a middle-aged black woman. “There wasn’t enough evidence for me. Both sides were a little shady.”
Nechmya Weberman, 54, allegedly forced himself on a 12-year-old Brooklyn girl for three years after she was sent to him for counseling, prosecutors charge.
The 12-person jury who will decide his fate began deliberations today, so the five alternate jurors were released from duty.
Two other alternate jurors said they would have voted to acquit Weberman of some of the 60 counts he faces.
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