NEW YORK : Ex-Juror Slashed by Killer He Convicted
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
It was a juror’s nightmare: A murderer spotted a jail maintenance man who had sat on the jury that convicted him. The killer broke free, jumped the man and slashed his face so badly that he needed 60 stitches. “You thought I couldn’t get you, but I got you!” inmate Corey Jackson snarled as guards pulled him away. The victim, Robert Manning, works at the Brooklyn House of Detention. He sat on a jury that convicted Jackson on April 10 in the deaths of three teenagers whose slaying was ordered by a drug dealer.
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