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Originally Posted by Firebot
The reporter was not chasing the bus and running red lights to keep chase to tell them they had a broken taillight...
Identifying where the jurors are located, identifying the jurors, taking photos, yelling questions. These are all things that can be seen as tampering and at least one of these was the likely motivation.
The courts and authorities will decide if jury tampering occurs after an investigation in the incident. If a pamphlet can convict a person of jury tampering (recently overturned on a technicality), being caught unlawfully chasing down a sealed jury bus of a highly controversial case is enough as well.
Burden of proof is much lesser on such a charge.
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I think your strange jury tampering tangent falls apart when someone tries to say how this freelance journalist was trying to influence jurors. By driving behind their bus, he was sending out a signal to convict? Was the signal to acquit? What direction was the driving meant to influence, that will be difficult for any prosecutor to prove.