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In Thursday’s majority opinion, appeals-court Chief Judge William Pryor wrote that the record of the case “establishes more than a substantial possibility that Juror No. 13 did not forsake his oath and instead was fulfilling his duty. Corrine Brown was entitled to the unanimous verdict of a jury of ordinary citizens. The removal of Juror No. 13 – a juror who listened for God’s guidance as he sat in judgment of Brown and deliberated over the evidence against her – deprived her of one.” Pryor wrote that the juror repeatedly assured Corrigan that he was following jury instructions a...

Conviction of former congresswoman Corrine Brown overturned She was facing fraud and tax charges Jim Saunders, Reporter, News Service of Florida Published:  Tags:  FILE - (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser, File) (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A divided federal appeals court Thursday overturned the conviction of former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown on fraud and tax charges, ruling that a juror was improperly removed from her trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told ...

Corrine Brown in a 2010 photo at NASA. (NASA) A divided federal appeals court Thursday overturned the conviction of former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown on fraud and tax charges, ruling that a juror was improperly removed from her trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 decision, ordered a new trial for Brown, who was convicted in 2017 on 18 felony counts related to an alleged charity scam. Brown’s appeal focused on whether U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan was justified in replacing the juror — k...

TALLAHASSEE — A divided federal appeals court Thursday overturned the conviction of former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown on fraud and tax charges, ruling that a juror was improperly removed from her trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 decision, ordered a new trial for Brown, who was convicted in 2017 on 18 felony counts related to an alleged charity scam. Brown’s appeal focused on whether U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan was justified in replacing the juror — known as Juror 13 — with an a...

Former Rep. Corrine Brown — seen talking with the press in Tallahassee, Fla., in 2015. TALLAHASSEE --- A divided federal appeals court Thursday overturned the conviction of former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown on fraud and tax charges, ruling that a juror was improperly removed from her trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 decision, ordered a new trial for Brown, who was convicted in 2017 on 18 felony counts related to an alleged charity scam. Brown’s appeal focused on whether U.S. District Judge ...