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Article: Jurors say text messages were totally innocent
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 20, 2005
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There were no secret text messages, they both insist.
And no "budding romance."
Shawn Payne and Alba Moreno each smiled and gave dismissive laughs
to questions about text messages the two shared as they sat through
almost seven weeks of testimony in the wrongful arrest trial brought
by the family of a boy accused of murder in 1998.
The jurors, barred from reading or listening to news accounts from
the trial, said they looked forward to catching up on stories of
allegations made against them.
"It made good news, that's all" said Payne, a suburban
schoolteacher. "I'm excited to go back and read the papers. It was
crazy."
Two weeks ago, Cook County Judge Randye Kogan brought the trial to
a ...