Click here for complete coverage of the trial. Waukesha County Judge Mark Gempeler told lawyers in the Mark Chmura trial Wednesday that a juror had seen a newspaper story about the trial during a break in testimony.
Bailiffs normally clip out articles about the trial before papers are given to jurors.
Bailiff Edison Steady said the juror was 3 feet away, saw the article's headline and immediately closed the paper and turned it over. The juror said he did not read the article. Gempeler made lawyers aware of the breach at the end of testimony Wednesday, calling it a minor contact, and neither the defense nor prosecution objected. In other testimony, Hartland police Capt. Michael Bagin testified that he did not talk to the alleged victim before filing for a search warrant to search Chmura's house.