People v. Black

BERMAN, Judge.

Defendant, Earl S. Black, appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of first degree sexual assault, alleging that two jury members were coerced into agreeing to a guilty verdict. We affirm.

Following trial on the sexual assault charge, defendant filed affidavits from two jurors, including the foreperson, stating that they “would not have stated a verdict of guilty but for the coercion imposed ... by the other jurors.” At a hearing on defendant’s motion for new trial, one juror testified that she was “talked into” agreeing to a guilty…