A Vanity Fair reporter was removed from the jury in a federal murder trial after posting an article on social media platform It was done.
Delia Cai used her X account to represent Brooklyn in a lawsuit against Anthony Abreu, a convicted Queens drug dealer who allegedly killed a man in 2019 on the orders of a Manhattan real estate developer. admitted to being removed from the jury.
“I couldn’t see the eclipse because I was on federal jury duty, but I did get to see some attractive FBI agents,” Tsai wrote in a now-deleted X post on Monday. .
News of Tsai’s jury dismissal came first. The New York Daily News reported.
In a follow-up post, she wrote: “We are literally not allowed to speak to each other outside of court… If I say hi, legally he has to ignore me… This is how I fell in love Don’t you know?”
U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon reprimanded Tsai on Tuesday and removed her from the case. Tsai later apologized.
In a follow-up post about X, Kai wrote: What will we learn from this? ”
She also joked, “The judge said girls go to naughty jail :/.”
Tsai told the Daily News she did not believe her post violated any rules.
“I have never served on a jury before. I have never been involved with the criminal justice system,” she said.
“I think I went into it pretty naively.”
“It was not my intention to make light of something as serious as a murder trial,” Tsai said.
She blamed the incident on “posting disease” and said, “If you had thought about it for five minutes, you would have realized that it was extremely inappropriate.”
“In this case, I made a really bad joke on the internet, and there were consequences.”
The paper has reached out to Tsai for comment.
Tsai was selected as a juror to hear the Abreu case in Brooklyn federal court.
Federal prosecutors charged Abreu with killing Shin “Chris” Goo outside a karaoke bar in Queens in February 2019.
Abreu is said to have been hired by his former boss, Chin Ming “Allen” Yu, to carry out the incident.
Mr. Yoo, who was convicted last fall of a murder-for-hire plot, seeks revenge against Mr. Goo, a former student and project manager, after he sets up his own business and poachs several clients. It is said that
