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New Jersey Appeals Court Throws Out Sex Abuse Conviction

By Lependorf & Silverstein

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A New Jersey court has thrown out a conviction in a sex abuse case because of comments a Bergen County sheriff?s officer made to jurors, according to this news report. Roy Hermalyn, who was an assistant school superintendent, was convicted in November 2007 of official misconduct. Prosecutors said he sexually touched a student and endangered the welfare of another. After a one-month trial, jurors acquitted him of 23 counts and convicted him of four. Hermalyn was facing up to 10 years in prison. But a day after the verdict, one of the jurors told a defense attorney that a sheriff?s officer assigned to the courtroom told them that the jury had to be unanimous in its verdict. So the jury felt as if they had to decide and ?come up with an answer...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).

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