Jury Foreman in Wecht Case: Prosecution “Politically Driven”Yesterday, we noted that the jury had hung in the case of forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, a prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and former coroner of Allegheny County, and that the jurors seemed inclined towards acquittal. Wecht’s attorneys, among them former attorney general Dick Thornburgh, have charged that U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan pursued the case out of political motivations.
Today, the jury foreman, speaking to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was even more explicit: “[A]s the case went on my thoughts were this was being politically driven.”