Hostin’s claim she was lone jury holdout in trial shot down

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00:00I feel so strongly about this holdout jurors because I was a holdout juror in a case in the

00:04Daniel Rakowitz case. I don't know if people remember it, the butcher of Tompkins Square Park.

00:08And I'm in the New York Times. And apparently several jurors questioned afterwards said one

00:13holdout juror was principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict.

00:20That was me. The View co-host Sunny Hostin has landed herself in hot water after she

00:25sensationally claimed on air that she was the lone holdout juror in the notorious Butcher of

00:31Tompkins Square Park case and forced Daniel Rakowitz, the NYC cannibal killer, to be found not guilty by

00:37reason of insanity. But multiple sources from the time directly refute her story. Hostin told the

00:43tale of being the lone jury holdout in the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park case as she discussed the

00:48parallels between that case and Lindsay Clancy's own insanity defense. It was so clear to me in the

00:54jury. And we were sequestered for nine days. One juror threw a chair at me. They were so angry with

00:59me. But one by one, I picked them off and said, what about this? What about that? And we ended

01:03up

01:04all 12 unanimously voting that he was not criminally responsible. Just hungry. See, that's my issue

01:10of insanity. But 35 years ago, jurors told The Post, Newsday, The Daily News and the Associated Press

01:17that the actual holdout was an unemployed man who wanted to keep the trial going so he could continue

01:23getting paid by the court for his civic duty. He was unemployed and liked the $15 a day and the

01:28three free meals, juror Valerie Holmes told Newsday in the aftermath of the verdict. He liked that we

01:33were arguing on and on. Holmes reiterated the claim to The Post and The Daily News, describing the

01:39holdout as being a very determined and manipulative man, determined to get his way. A law enforcement

01:44source from the time also told The Post this week that The Holdout was a man. Meanwhile, Hostin was

01:49quoted as a juror on the case in multiple news clips at the time. But she did not identify herself

01:55as the

01:55lone holdout, nor did any of the fellow jurors who talked to the press after the trial. When asked by

02:00The Post, Hostin doubled down on the fact that she was the lone holdout juror in the infamous case.