Sunny Hostin told The View audience on Tuesday that she sat as the single dissenting juror in the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz, known as the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park, and that she convinced the remaining 11 jurors to find him not guilty by reason of insanity.

News accounts published immediately after the verdict contradict that recollection. The Daily News identified Asunción Cummings, Hostins name at the time, as a juror frustrated with the holdout and certain the defendant understood his conduct. Separate reports from the same period named an unemployed man who valued the 15 dollars a day plus free meals as the juror who refused to convict.