Like a curtain call at the conclusion of an epic performance, jurors returned to a crowded courtroom Friday to thunderous applause after pronouncing Yazeed Essa guilty of the aggravated murder of his wife.
In a rare turn of events, all 12 jurors and four alternates chose to address the media and the family and friends of Rosemarie Essa, who died in 2005 when her husband slipped her a calcium supplement laced with cyanide.
Yazeed Essa, stony-faced upon hearing his fate, had been handcuffed and escorted from the courtroom before the jurors crowded around a podium, stacked with the microphones of local and national TV crews. They took turns explaining with candor, emotion and some measure of levity what went on behind the closed jury room door during their three-and-a half days of deliberation.
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