NEW: One of the jurors who convicted Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking in December intends to take the Fifth at a hearing next week regarding his role on the jury.
based on the current record, but ordered the juror to court to answer questions under oath. The court also unsealed the juror's responses to a written jury questionnaire, showing that the juror answered"no" to a question asking if he had ever been a victim of sexual harassment, assault or abuse.
In response to the letter from the juror's lawyer, federal prosecutors informed the court that they are"in the process of seeking internal approval" to grant the juror immunity, thereby compelling him to testify at the hearing. Subject to that approval, the government says it will submit a proposed order to the judge in advance of the hearing, according to a letter from prosecutors that was filed with the court.
Juror 50 granted several interviews in the days following Maxwell's convictions in late December. Identified in media reports using his first and middle names, Scotty David, he told Reuters, The Daily Mail and The Independent that during a critical stage of deliberations, he shared his experiences of being sexually abused as a child.
He claimed in interviews that his personal reflections helped convince some skeptical jurors that key prosecution witnesses -- the four women who testified about Maxwell's role in their sexual abuse -- could be believed. "I know what happened when I was sexually abused. I remember the [color] of the carpet, the walls. Some of it can be replayed like a video," he said in an interview with the Independent."But I can't remember all the details, there are some things that run together.
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