Lawyer disbarred over jury duty misbehavior

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	Lawyer disbarred over jury duty misbehavior

tommy2balmy

3-11-2009 5:31 AM

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"I changed my vote," Fahy said in the declaration, "so that the deliberations would finally come to an end and I could return to the office."

When confronted by Ballati, the State Bar Court ruling said, Fahy contended that "his signature was forged, signed by him by mistake or he was tricked into signing it."

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