Jury Finds Defendant Pretty

FREMONT, CA–Meredith Kent, a 26-year-old Fremont woman charged with four counts of bribery and embezzlement, was found pretty by a jury of her peers Monday. “She has an absolutely lovely face–it took no time at all for us to reach a consensus about that,” jury foreman Richard Bloch, 58, said. “And her neck is amazingly long and graceful like a swan’s.” Kent was longingly cross-examined for nearly an hour before the verdict of pretty was announced.