Midshipman Faces New Charges in Sexual Assault Case

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Juror came forward with concerns about impartiality of deliberations</p>

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A military judge declined yesterday to grant a new trial to a former Navy football player who was convicted of sexual assault after a juror said his peers on the seven-member panel of Naval Academy officers had a “lack of impartiality” during deliberations.</p>

<p>Maj. Robb Mansfield, an electrical engineering instructor, testified in a hearing at the Washington Navy Yard yesterday that he came forward just two days after the conclusion of Kenny Ray Morrison’s trial last month with concerns about “the method in which we attacked, or undertook the deliberations.”…

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