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The defendant's lawyer Andrew Flier (r.) said the prosecutor approached juror Tom Hanks during a lunch break.
Actor Tom Hanks is at the center of a jury tampering review after a Los Angeles prosecutor allegedly tried to be his bosom buddy while he was serving on a trial.
Hanks, 57, was a juror on a domestic violence case this week when a city attorney who wasn't affiliated with the case but who works in the same office as the assigned prosecutor thanked the "Forrest Gump" star for fulfilling his civic duty, a legal source told the Daily News.
Later disclosure of the barrister's blunder ground the misdemeanor trial to a halt and led the City Attorney's office to offer a plea deal on a lesser charge, the source said.
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"We have been apprised of the matter, and we'll review it," City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan told the News Wednesday.
The defendant's lawyer Andrew Flier told TMZ.com that his client agreed to plead no contest to a minor infraction - disturbing the peace - and pay a $150 fine.
The man was facing up to year in jail if convicted of the original domestic violence charge.
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Flier said the female prosecutor who spoke to the superstar juror apparently approached him in a stairwell during a lunch break.
"She was just being maybe a little star struck and nice, but…it's an absolute 100 percent no-no, and it should never have happened," Flier told TMZ, the celebrity website that first reported the incident.
ndillon@nydailynews.com
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