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Defendant's Ex-Girlfriend Enters Jury Room 3/6/13
Associated Press
3/6/13
(Information in the following story is from: The Dallas Morning News,
http://www.dallasnews.com. Not for online use in Dallas market.)
DALLAS - Authorities are investigating jury room security at the Dallas
County courthouses after the ex-girlfriend of a murder defendant entered a jury
room and showed jurors a cellphone photo of the man's 10-year-old son.
A Dallas County sheriff's spokeswoman says testimony hadn't begun in the
trial of Robert Earl Oliver at the county's criminal courts building Tuesday
when the woman entered the jury room and confronted jurors in Oliver's trial.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Carmen Castro tells The Dallas Morning News
(http://bit.ly/YvyAk7) the woman urged jurors to keep the child in mind as they
heard the case against Oliver. State District Judge Fred Tinsley declared a
mistrial and ordered a security review.
Oliver is accused of stabbing friend Eric Franklin to death in October 2011.