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More Delicious Corruption TrialLeftovers: Juror Says "There Was a Lotof Disagreeing," Fax Machine Was "theTalk of the Day"

By Sam Merten inCover Story ,Crime and Punishment Mon., Oct. 19 2009 @ 2:37PM

Sam Merten According to juror Nedra Frazier,the arguments against conspiracy surrounded Rickey Robertson, seenhere leaving the courthouse with his wife and baby daughter after the jury found him guilty on two counts. A few hours after she and 11 other jurors found Don Hill and his fourco-defendants guilty of 23 of the 29 charges against them in theDallas City Hall corruption case, Rowlett resident Nedra Frazier gaveme a behind-the-scenes peek at the deliberations. Much likemy lengthy interview with Don and Sheila Hill, the majority of my conversation with Frazier didn't make it intothe cover story in thecurrent paper version of Unfair Park because of space constraints, soI've again pulled together the highlights in the form of a Q & A afterthe jump.

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Frazier, a 43-year-old wife and mother of two children, had plannedon spending the last few months trying to find a new job to replacethe one she held for 10 years at Avaya, a telecommunicationscompany, which had been shipped overseas to India at the end of January. Instead, a last-minute challenge in June by the defensealleging that the prosecution had been eliminating jurors based onrace resulted in her addition as the last of four black jurors selected.Because the case involved several defendants and numerous counts,Frazier endorsed a plan to discuss each count as it appeared on the jury's verdict form, which juror Rachel Secore of Dallas confirms.Each count was read out loud, followed by the definitions of thecounts, the count as it appeared in the indictment and then thedefinitions once again. "There was a lot of discussion about thedefinitions. That part we took very seriously," Secore says.The jury spent the most time discussing count 20, Frazier says,eventually finding both Hill and Reagan not guilty. "There just wasn'tenough evidence on that one." After that decision, jurors took asecond look at approximately four other counts, especially regardingSheila Hill's and Rickey Robertson's involvement. "There were several we had to go back and just really, really think about it and talk aboutit."

You sound hesitant [to talk]. I'm sure you're ready to bedone with it.

It was just overwhelming today, that's all.

What did the jury see as the most damning evidence againstthe defendants?

Just looking at all the facts, like the video surveillance, thetranscripts, testimony -- all those were the factors. So, we had what,