Jurors who served during the Blake Colella assault case seem to be split whether there was any witness intimidation, but had no question about his guilt.Colella was found guilty Friday, Dec. 14 of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon when he stabbed Richard Dalton outside the 7-Eleven store on Fayette Street in Lynn on May 19, 2006. He was sentenced to 7-10 years.The Item obtained a list of jurors who served on the trial after a request was made to Superior Court Judge David A. Lowy. The Item agreed with jurors not to print their names in this report.”There is no doubt the phone conversations (Blake) had with his father (Angelo) were damaging,” a juror said. “You certainly could sense he was not very smart the way he talked to his father knowing the calls were being taped.”When asked if the phone calls led to witness intimidation the juror said, “Probably. Even the kid who got stabbed couldn’t remember. I know it was more than a year ago, but if you got stabbed you should remember what happened. I thought it was odd that witnesses had to have their Grand Jury testimony read back to them.”During the trial jurors heard taped conversations in which Colella’s father tells his son, “Things are coming together. I’m trying to put this to bed.”In all, the jury, comprised of eight men and six women, including two alternates, heard five calls Colella made to his father in May 2006 from the Middleton Jail in which his father also told him, “none of this should have happened” and that he would have to “get out of Lynn” when this was over.Another juror said he did not believe witnesses were threatened but was quick to say those phone calls did not help Colella, and he was not surprised that Angelo Colella did not testify.”If the father were going to testify truthfully, there was really nothing he could have said to help his son,” the juror said. “There was not a single thing that led to this guilty verdict but there were certainly enough pieces that added up. He was guilty of this charge.”A third juror said she was convinced Colella was guilty when a witness testified that she had identified Colella from a photo array.”I definitely thought there was witness tampering based on what we heard on the taped calls,” she said. “Witnesses were not forthcoming because of the Colella family.”The juror said a couple of female witnesses said Colella had confessed to them that he had done the stabbing. The juror also said the testimony was very credible.”In all of the phone conversations (Blake) had with his father he never showed any remorse,” the juror said. “The only thing they talked about was making sure everything was taken care of and that people would not testify against him.”She said she was surprised the defense attorney (Ronald Ranta) never put forth a real defense for Colella. “All the defense tried to do was put holes in the prosecution’s case,” she said. “At no point did they try to put forth a defense for Colella.”A fourth juror said while she did not believe the witnesses were intimidated by the Colella family she did say some of the witnesses’ actions were curious.”I do not think we thought too much that any of the witnesses were scared off, but I did think it was curious the store clerk did not testify,” the juror said. “You would have expected he would have seen something right outside the store.