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The life of a sequestered juror for the Vanderbilt rape case

They had Clint Eastwood movies like “Hang ‘Em High,” played games and paced the hotel hallway.

Such is the life of a sequestered juror.

Fourteen people from Hamilton County were chosen as jurors in the retrial of Cory Batey, a former Vanderbilt University football player found guilty of raping an unconscious student in June 2013. Because of intense media coverage of a prior trial, Judge Monte Watkins said jurors would be chosen in Chattanooga and sequestered during trial in Nashville.

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