"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin said on-air Tuesday that she was a holdout juror in the 1991 murder trial of Daniel Rakowitz, known as the "Butcher of Tompkins Square Park," but contemporaneous accounts offer conflicting descriptions of the jury's deliberations.During a discussion of the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial, Hostin recounted her experience on the Rakowitz jury, prompting news outlets to compare her account with reporting from 1991."And apparently, several jurors questioned afterwards said one holdout juror was principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict," Hostin said Tuesday while citing a 1991 New York Times report."That was me," she added.While Hostin served on the Rakowitz jury, The New York Post reported that other contemporaneous accounts identified an unemployed man as the principal holdout.
The Post wrote that "jurors told The Post, Newsday, the Daily News and the Associated Press that the actual holdout was an unemployed man who wanted to keep the trial going so he could continue getting paid by the court for his civic duty."LINDSAY CLANCY HOLDOUT PRAISED AS 'AMERICAN HERO' BY LAWYER WHO SAYS HE REPRESENTS HIMMichael P.Desronvil, left, the lone holdout juror who forced a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, has retained an attorney who once represented President Donald Trump.
Clancy, right, faced three counts of first-degree murder in the strangling deaths of her three children.(Facebook/Brittany K and Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)"He was unemployed and liked the $15 a day and the three free meals," juror Valerie Holmes told Newsday after the verdict, according to contemporaneous coverage.The Post also cited a law enforcement source familiar with the case who said, "We were told that the juror who held out was a man.
There was no other description."Another factor, The New York Post said, was that "Hostin was quoted as a juror on the case in multiple news clips at the time — but she did n...