A juror in a high-profile New Jersey murder trial was dismissed last week after a post appeared on her Facebook page that suggested she found the situation funny. The unidentified juror, who was described by NJ.com as “a 21-year-old Middletown resident,” was dismissed on Feb. 7 from the murder trial of Liam McAtasney, who is accused of killing 19-year-old Sarah Stern in December 2016. McAtasney has pleaded not guilty, and on Thursday his lawyer argued that the Facebook post was enough for the judge to declare a mistrial. The dismissed juror told NJ.com that the Facebook comment was written by her younger sister, who shares the account. “A lot of people kept telling me I looked like (Stern) and everyone involved was my age and so it was a lot to handle,” the juror told NJ.com.

Source: Huffington Post February 15, 2019 23:15 UTC