The segment on Oprah featuring Juror Alec Beckett did not disclose the fact that this man took money by selling his story about the Pamela Smart trial to the Boston Globe.  During the interview Beckett also stated that he “did not know of any example of jurors being tainted or talking out of school.”

We beg to differ.

While still in the jury pool, Juror Charlotte Jefts was overheard speaking to others in the room about the “wickedness of Pamela Smart.”  However, when she was questioned as a potential jury member for the Smart trial, she falsely swore, under oath, that she was impartial and had no opinion of the defendant’s innocence or guilt.  Jefts was then selected to serve on the jury which convicted Pamela Smart.

During the period when Juror Brian Adams was unsequestered, he denied being in a bar discussing the case with other patrons while the events of the day at Pamela Smart’s trial was being replayed on the television set there.  However, the Wojas family received a police recorded telephone call reporting Adams was there, and talking about the case.

Juror Karen Sicard made tapes each night while unsequestered at home, then offered to sell the tapes to one of Pamela Smart’s attorneys for $25,000.  We are in possession of signed affidavits from her neighbors, Keith and Dianne Ham, saying Sicard told them, “we’ve had a bad winter financially and I plan to sell the tapes to a movie or book company at the end of the trial.”