Daniel Rakowitz

Absolutely, that she was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity.

And the reason I felt that I feel so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in a case, in the Daniel Rakowitz case.

I don't know if people remember it, the butcher of Tompkins Square Park.

It was in 1990.

And I thought... absolutely that she was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity.

And the reason I felt that I feel so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in a case, in the Daniel Rakowitz case.

I don't know if people remember it, the butcher of Tompkins Square Park.

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Now, we got actually a man acquitted of killing and boiling roommate by Ronald Sullivan.

A Manhattan jury found an East Village man not guilty by reason of insanity yesterday for killing and dismembering his roommate when she asked him to leave her apartment.

After nine days of deliberations, the jury concluded that Daniel Rakowitz, a 30-year-old dishwasher and self-styled marijuana guru, suffered from mental disease or defect and thus was not criminally responsible on August 19 murder of Monica Beer, whose skull he left in the baggage room of the Port Authority bus terminal in a bucket of kitty litter.

Let me bring myself up here so you can actually see this and understand that I'm reading reality.

So we played last week how she claimed that a couple days ago, actually, that she bragged about it.

She was so proud to be the lone holdout who flipped the Daniel Rakowitz jury to not guilty by reason of insanity.

She bragged about getting off a cannibal, okay? In contemporary 1991 reporting, and jurors named a man, not her, as the principal holdout.

And the New York Post published the fact check yesterday, all right? It went into detail about jurors talking to the Post, Newsday, Daily News, and the AP after the verdict described the holdout as an unemployed man who liked the $15 a day and three free meals and was happy to keep arguing, okay? It was not Butterface, Sonny Hostin'.

And I thought absolutely that she was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity.

And the reason I felt that I feel so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in a case, in the Daniel Rakowitz case.

I don't know if people remember it, the butcher of Tompkins Square Park.

It was in 1990.

When you say stuff like that, people go looking for the information.

And they uncovered an article from the New York Daily News, and it suggests that Sonny Hostin was not the holdout juror in the Daniel Rakowitz trial.

She did serve on the jury in 1991, but the New York Daily News reported that the holdout juror was an unemployed man who wanted a bit of extra cash.

One juror won a battle of wills by holding out for an insanity verdict.