Prosecutors say a Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls should not be granted a new trial even though a juror flirted over the phone with the defendant's sister.
A hearing is expected to resume Monday on the request for Anand Jon Alexander, who was convicted of 16 sex-related charges in November. Alexander's attorneys are seeking a new trial because they believe one of the jurors, Alvin Dymally, reached out to Alexander's sister during the trial.
But prosecutors counter that a conversation between them was just flirtatious banter and not about the defendant's guilt or innocence.
The district attorney's office on Thursday released a transcript of a recorded phone conversation between Dymally and Alexander's sister Sanjana in which the juror complimented her appearance and made plans to meet.
"The tape speaks for itself," Deputy District Attorney Frances Young wrote in prosecution's argument against a new trial. "It appears to capture a conversation in which Dymally wanted to privately tell Sanjana that he thought she was 'sexy' and that he wanted to see her 'afterwards.'"
Friday, July 3, 2009
Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls
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