Jurors who acquitted DC sandwich terrorist Sean Dunn tell CBS News that deliberations were trickier and lasted longer than one would first assume given that two of the 12 had initially voted to find Dunn guilty of the misdemeanor charge brought by US Attorney Jeanine “Judge Box-o-Wine” Pirro after she failed at least once to get a grand jury to stick him with a felony assault count.
“I thought we’d be out of there quickly. This case had no ‘grounding.’ He threw a sandwich at the agent because he knew it wouldn’t hurt. A reasonable person wouldn’t think a sandwich is a weapon,” said one of the jurors, explaining that the two holdouts were afraid of sending a message that it’s okay to throw shit at federal law enforcement officers. Not the worst reason for it and certainly better than simple politics. Obviously the holdouts ended up caving, otherwise there would’ve been a mistrial, something the jurors credited the foreperson’s management skills with.