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Tobacco trial is too much for juror / Alternate bolts from court, is excused 

An alternate juror discarded his red ID badge Thursday morning and bolted from the Shelby County Courthouse.

He isn't coming back.

The defection, just before the start of Thursday's morning session, occurred as attorneys for cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris were to resume questioning cancer specialists they had called to the witness stand.

Memphis radiologist Daniel J. Becker and retired pathologist George T. Hensley of Virginia testified last week that Florence Bruch and James Karney suffered from cancers that didn't originate in the lungs.

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