Back to Square One for the Raj Rajaratnam Jury

After seven days of deliberations, one juror in the insider trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam has been dismissed, for unspecified medical reasons. An alternate has been seated, but this means the jury has to begin its deliberations anew. The original jurors must be thrilled.

Let’s hope that the dismissed juror was a holdout (either way). The suspense is killing us!

Readers: Any predictions on how this will turn out? Will celebrated criminal defense lawyer John Dowd — who successfully represented the fabulous Monica Goodling, among others — pull this off? Or will the prosecutors of the legendary S.D.N.Y. get their man?

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Rajaratnam Trial, Take 2 [WSJ Law Blog]

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