Claim jurors discussed the trial with each other before they were allowed to. We also learned today one of the jurors was removed because he talked to his personal attorney about the case. He said to his attorney, there are 12 people and they are kind of all over the place and i dont know what to do. Mcdonnells attorneys pushed for a mistrial then and asked judge spencer to interview the jury, but spencer chose to remove that one juror. Legal expert matt kaiser says this file is just to set up motions for an appeal. Cases like this where youve got a lot of press attention, youve got a really powerful high ranking person involved, they have their own gravitational pull. It may be the kind of thing that gets more traction than you wouldnt otherwise see. That motion was filed september 18th, two weeks after a jury convict convicted mcdonnell and his wife for accepting over 165,000 in gifts and lows for Star Scientific ceo johnny loans from Star Scientific ceo jonnie williams. A new poll s