Deliberations by Texas jury prompts missing person report

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The officers were told the juror was fine and was inside the jury room with other jurors.

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Judge Ralph Strother said in his 21 years in the criminal justice system, this was the first time someone had filed a missing person report for someone on jury duty.

The jurors got absorbed in their deliberations but officials don’t want them to “take it so seriously that they forget their families,” he said.

“We knew everything was OK, and I’m sure the family member was quite concerned, and I don’t blame them. But from our perspective, it kind of brought a bit of comic relief from a very intense trial,” Strother said.

The jurors continued deliberating until early Friday morning when the defendant in the case, 23-year-old William Trevunte Brown, pleaded guilty as part of an agreement with prosecutors for robbing a smoke shop.

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Information from: Waco Tribune-Herald, http://www.wacotrib.com

The Associated Press