Sunny Hostin Says She Kept Murderous Cannibal Out Of Prison As Holdout Juror
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oThe Viewo host Sunny Hostin bragged about how she was once a holdout
juror and helped a cannibal avoid prison.
Hostin stunned other members of the panel when she admitted to being
part of the reason oThe Butcher of Tompkins Square Parko was found not
guilty by reason of insanity in 1991. The discussion came up on Tuesday
as the hosts discussed the Lindsay Clancy case.
oThe insanity defense has been around in Massachusetts for 182 years,
so I think itAs well-established. And I thought absolutely that she was
not criminally responsible by reason of insanity,o she said of the
Clancy trial, which ended in a mistrial earlier this month.
oAnd the reason I felt that u I feel so strongly about this holdout
juror is because I was a holdout juror in a case; in the Daniel
Rakowitz case. I donAt know if people remember it, The Butcher of
Tompkins Square. It was in 1991 ao she said while trailing off.
oThe guy who ate the victims?o fellow host Joy Behar asked.
oYes,o Hostin confirmed, causing panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin to gasp.
Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, went on to read from a New York
Times article about Rakowitz being acquitted.
oSeveral jurors questioned afterwards said one holdout juror was
principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty
verdict,o Hostin read aloud from the article.
oThat was me, and it was because I saw clearly that he was psychotic,
he was in psychosis, he did not mean to kill her and once he killed her
he panicked. He chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts,
tried to commit the perfect crime and then ao she explained before
Griffin cut her off.
oAnd you got this guy off?o Griffin asked in disbelief.
oThatAs how much I believe in the insanity defense, and he fed her body
parts to the unhoused,o she went on.
oAll that being said, it was so clear to me in the jury room. And we
were sequestered for nine days, one juror threw a chair at me. They
were so angry with me but one by one I picked them off and said, aWhat
about this? What about that?A and we ended up, all 12, unanimously
voting that he was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity.o
oBut he is still in a mental institution being treated,o Hostin added.
The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park case involved Daniel Rakowitz, a
known drug dealer and eccentric who carried around a Bible and live
rooster while making threats no one believed. He slaughtered his
roommate Monika Beerle, a 26-year-old dance student, in 1989. He was
accused of dismembering her body and boiling her head for soup, which
he then said he served to the homeless.
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