Deja vu again for juror
Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999 | 10:58 a.m.
For a woman who had been the victim of a robbery by a man who was never caught, being summoned as a potential juror for a robbery trial in District Court was more traumatic than she ever imagined.
At the noon break during the daylong jury selection process, the woman approached the bailiff with tears in her eyes to say that the lanky defendant in the trial was the same man who had robbed her.
The woman was shaking in near-terror because the defendant, Anthony Hicks, was free on bail and walking the hallways outside the courtroom.
She was quickly dismissed from jury duty, and prosecutors and police pondered how to pounce on Hicks without completely disrupting the current trial.
But in the end, that was unnecessary because Hicks had an air-tight alibi for the holdup involving the prospective juror.
He was in jail at the time.
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