The foreman of a jury that convicted a teen of murder regrets it now and says jurors were unaware of information a recent AP review turned up. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the top prosecutor at that time, said any new evidence should be reviewed.
February 1, 2020 GMT
“I do feel badly,” jury foreman Joe McLean told the AP. “I feel, for lack of a better word, that we were misled.”No gun, fingerprints or DNA were ever recovered, and the 2003 trial of Myon Burrell centered on the testimony of one teen rival who offered conflicting stories when identifying the triggerman, who was standing 120 feet away, mostly behind a wall.
Meanwhile, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who led the Hennepin County Attorney’s office at the time Tyesha Edward was felled by a stray bullet, was asked about the case while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in New Hampshire. She has cited the case repeatedly during her political career, including during her 2006 campaign for the U.S. Senate, and more recently in a Democratic candidates’ debate.
In his interview with the AP, McLean recalled the trial and said Burrell’s defense attorney seemed inexperienced and unable to mount an aggressive defense. Although jurors never visited the scene of the shooting, he said, he found it difficult to believe that Burrell, who is 5-foot-3, could have fired a handgun over a 5-foot wall, as prosecutors claimed.“I held as long as I could,” he said. “It’s weird. You think you can do it, you can hold on, but you’ve never been in that situation.”McLean said that after jurors agreed on a verdict, he went into a jury restroom and vomited.
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