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" … It is certainly permissible and expected that jurors tell others that they have been selected to be on a jury," assistant Lancaster County Assistant District Attorney Kelly M. Sekula wrote in court papers filed late Tuesday afternoon.
READ: DA's response to Roseboro's motion for new trial
"It borders on ridiculous to suggest that jurors are required to not tell others about their service as jurors and that they are on a jury, especially in a lengthy trial such as the present case," Sekula wrote.
The prosecutor's filing was a response to Roseboro's claims of juror misconduct and motion for acquittal and a new trial. The former funeral director's appeal, filed Oct. 5, is based on the frustration expressed in Facebook posts by two jurors about having to serve on jury duty and the length of the trial.
Roseboro, 42, director of a family-owned funeral home in Denver, was convicted in July of killing his 45-year-old wife, Jan, in the swimming pool of their Reinholds home on July 22, 2008.
Defense attorney Allan Sodomsky, writing in Roseboro's appeal, claims the jurors' posts were in direct violation of the judge's "repeated instructions to the jury not to have any communications with any persons regarding the trial during their service as jurors."
Judge James P. Cullen, who presided over Roseboro's three-week trial, will determine whether to call for a hearing including testimony from the two jurors, Michael Hecker and Nick Keene, on the issue.
It is unclear when he will do so; neither he nor his staff were available for comment Tuesday afternoon.
