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If the juror is allowed to keep the money after the trial if they report it, just means we will have open bribery of jurors.
"Yes, I got this $100,000 cashier check to vote guilty, so I'm going to vote not guilty to keep the $100,000"
You let them keep it as a reward for doing the right thing and reporting, but you also replace them in the jury.
So you can replace a juror of your choice for a bag of cash?
Apparently you can do that already since this juror was removed. Also it sounds expensive with very little reward
Not to mention it involves directly implicating yourself in a new crime (or several, since it would be both bribery as well as jury tampering). And it would be more evidence of guilt.