The villain of the Tyco trial became Jordan, a former schoolteacher and lawyer who was in seclusion after the mistrial. She was demonized on the Internet after The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post identified her as the lone holdout. But Andrews says there was plenty of disagreement in the jury room. “You had 12 different backgrounds all clashing,” he said. “The responsibility doesn’t fall on one person.” By Friday morning, though, the jury had coalesced and were “15 minutes” from convicting both men on several counts, says Andrews. Then Judge Michael Obus announced he was declaring a mistrial. Jordan had told him she’d received a threatening letter and was too terrified to go on. “People were crying,” juror Gregory Sutton told NEWSWEEK. “We were so close to the end and then to have this happen was just devastating.”
