Los Angeles: Seeking to Influence a Jury

The trial of Automaker John Z. De Lorean on cocaine-trafficking charges was nearly short-circuited last week by eight white envelopes. Six jurors and two alternates in the ten-week-old trial acknowledged that they had received unsolicited copies of a House report that was highly critical of the kind of FBI "sting" operation that snared De Lorean. The material came from the office of California Congressman Don Edwards, chairman of the subcommittee that prepared the study. Edwards said the copies were posted in response to what seemed a routine request from a San Francisco letter writer to forward the report to 13...

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