By: Attorneys for a former high school football coach convicted in the shooting death of his pregnant wife wants the Houston Chronicle to identify a reader who posted a comment about the case on the newspaper's Web site.
The comments suggests that the juror spoke about the deliberations while the trial was still ongoing.
Attorneys for David Mark Temple issued a subpoena yesterday calling for the Chronicle to appear in court Monday.
The comment was posted Thursday morning, about seven hours before a jury found the 39-year-old Temple guilty of shooting his wife in 1999.
Belinda Temple, a special education teacher at Katy High School, was eight months pregnant.
In the posting, a reader who goes by the screen name "REFster" wrote that his boss was on the jury, and that he believed a verdict would be ready by the afternoon.
Jurors are not allowed to talk about a case outside the jury room while a trial is under way.
The Chronicle's management said they had not decided how to respond to the subpoena.
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