NEW YORK — The juror in the Ghislaine Maxwell case who failed to disclose that he was sexually abused as a child during jury selection had a bizarre explanation Tuesday for withholding the crucial information: He was distracted by a breakup.
“We just sat there for three hours. I didn’t have a phone. I didn’t have a book. I was sitting twiddling my thumbs thinking about the breakup that happened a few weeks prior,” Scotty David testified in Manhattan Federal Court.
David’s failure to share his past experience has thrown the guilty verdict against Maxwell into doubt. The British socialite says she deserves a new trial because David was not truthful on the questionnaire. David gave interviews to media outlets after the verdict revealing that he had shared his sexual assault experience with fellow jurors during deliberations.
