A woman who gave interviews representing herself as a Whitewater juror, suggesting she took pretrial suspicions into the jury room, now says she wasn't a juror and was just playing along with callers.
Janice Greer said she had gotten tired of calls from reporters who mistook her for a real juror who has the same name."I've never been on a jury," Greer said in an interview Saturday at the convenience store where she works.
Despite numerous efforts to contact her, the Janice Greer who did serve on the jury has refused to comment. She is a licensed practical nurse from Traskwood, just southeast of Benton.
After talking to the Janice Greer who was not a juror on Tuesday and Wednesday, The Associated Press reported Thursday that she said a news article she read shortly before the trial seemed to implicate the Whitewater defendants and it "probably played a little bit of a part" in her verdict.
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and James and Susan McDougal - former Whitewater business partners of President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - were convicted of fraud and conspiracy counts Tuesday.