PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
Friday, March 22, 2013
By Ralph Cipriano
for bigtrial.net
An alternate juror in the Engelhardt-Shero case recalled the moment she got a courtesy phone call from the court clerk, telling her the jury had reached a verdict.
It seemed pretty fast to her. The call came in at 7 p.m. on Jan. 30, 2013, after three days of deliberation, only five days after she had been dismissed as an alternate.
They came back guilty on all the charges except one, the court clerk told the alternate juror, a young woman in her 30s.
“I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ I couldn’t believe it,” she said in an interview. “I thought for sure they were going to vote not guilty because there was absolutely no proof that these men had done that.”
To the alternate juror, who wishes to remain anonymous, the guilty verdict was “incredible,” even “insane.”
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