Correction:Funny, but that is pretty much exactly what happened: His only chance of reducing his sentence now was to influence the jury and during the summer before the trial, Capone's gang began the process of bribing and threatening all of the twelve jurors. Realising what Capone would do, Judge Wilkerson made other plans, and on the day of the trial he openly switched jurys with another trial. The following day, after nine hours of deliberation, the new jury found Capone guilty of some, but not all, counts of tax evasion. See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/alcapone.shtml, http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/trial_26.html.
Correction: Funny, but that is pretty much exactly what happened: His only chance of reducing his sentence now was to influence the jury and during the summer before the trial, Capone's gang began the process of bribing and threatening all of the twelve jurors. Realising what Capone would do, Judge Wilkerson made other plans, and on the day of the trial he openly switched jurys with another trial. The following day, after nine hours of deliberation, the new jury found Capone guilty of some, but not all, counts of tax evasion. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/alcapone.shtml, http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/trial_26.html.
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