Jurors in Sarah Palin's defamation trial against the New York Times deliberated for about two hours starting Friday afternoon. They are expected to resume deliberations Monday at 9:30 a.m.
A jury of nine New Yorkers, made up of five women and four men, deliberated for about two hours starting Friday afternoon. They are expected to resume deliberations Monday at 9:30 a.m.The former Alaska Governor sued the Times and its former editorial page editor James Bennet in 2017 after they published an editorial that erroneously linked a map that Palin's political action committee had posted to the 2011 shooting that killed six and injured former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Jurors also heard from the former Alaska governor herself when she took the stand on Wednesday, testifying she was"mortified" that the Times falsely accused her of inciting the murder of those six people, which included a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, six years after that deadly shooting."I was powerless. I didn't have the political action committee up and running. I didn't have any television contracts.
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