11.   Jeanette Harris, another dismissed juror, had accused the woman of deliberately stepping on her foot in the jury box one day and also kicked another African-American panelist.

12.   Nor did he rebuke the conduct of the dismissed juror, as he did when he made his last substitution.

13.   Others, given the reactions of some dismissed jurors, apparently feared that further testimony would backfire.

14.   Privately, prosecutors insisted that the reports about misrepresentations by the most recently dismissed juror did not originate with them but with her own friends.

15.   Several dismissed jurors had indicated that they were not impressed with such evidence, finding no direct connection between the past incidents of abuse and subsequent murder.

16.   The bailiff reciting the list of dismissed jurors startled the courtroom when he read a name identical to that of the slain father.

17.   The dismissed juror described how a second movie room had to be set up after white jurors were regularly outvoted on what to watch.

18.   The dismissed juror was replaced with an African-American.

19.   The dismissed juror, Francine Florio-Bunten, said she was entitled to know why she was released.

20.   The dismissed juror, Mary Jane Cotey, later said she would have voted to acquit.