Criminal Justice
Authorities Charge Defendant’s Relative for Putting Article on Jurors’ Windshields
Authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for help finding a man charged with jury tampering for putting a newspaper article on jurors’ windshields describing evidence banned from his brother-in-law’s arson trial.
Authorities are searching for Christopher Vaughn Hillman, according to the Los Angeles Times and City News Service. His brother-in-law, Raymond Lee Oyler, was sentenced to death for setting a forest fire about 90 miles east of Los Angeles that killed five firefighters in 2006.
Prosecutors claim Hillman put an article about another arson suspect on all of the cars parked in the juror parking lot during Oyler’s February trial. Oyler was sentenced to death in June by a jury in Riverside County, Calif., the Associated Press reports.
