'Infuriated' juror let go from trial

NEW YORK, June 11 (UPI) -- A New York juror who told the judge the case was moving so slow that "people are falling asleep" was removed from the jury.

Eilene Block, 47, who was serving on the jury for the trial of a man accused of hitting a 16-year-old with his Jet Ski, wrote in a letter to Supreme Court Justice Deborah Dowling that she did not believe she would be able to continue as an impartial juror in the slow-moving case after it was announced that the three week trial would extend into another week, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.

"Things go on and on and on and on endlessly and I don't see the value in it and people are asleep," Block wrote.

Block wrote that she was particularly incensed by the prosecution's two-day cross-examination of an accident reconstruction expert.

"I'm infuriated to the point where I am no longer able to serve as an objective juror," Block wrote. "I'm angry, distracted and convinced the deliberative process will suffer."

Block was dismissed by Dowling and the record containing her letter was sealed.

A spokesman for District Attorney Charles Hynes said he had "full confidence" in the prosecutor.

"It's better that the juror has been replaced," the spokesman said.