“The View” host Sunny Hostin revealed that she was the holdout juror in the high-profile “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park” trial in 1991.
\n\nHostin spoke of her time serving on that jury during a discussion on the Lindsay Clancy case, which ended earlier this month in a mistrial with the jury split 11-1.
\n\n“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,” Hostin said on Tuesday’s episode, to the shock of her fellow cast mates.
\n\nRakowitz was accused of killing and dismembering Monika Beerle, a 26-year-old dance student, then boiling her body parts and feeding them in a soup to people in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village of Manhattan in 1989.
\n\nHe was found not guilty by reason of insanity at his 1991 trial, which dominated headlines.
\n\nHostin said she served on the jury before she went to law school.
\n\n“When I brought it up at the Hot Topics meeting, I don’t think everyone believed me. And then my producer looked it up, and I’m in the New York Times,” she said.
\n\nThe show then aired a picture of…
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