you would have to be here to tell him as opposed to reading about it and trying to imagine what its really like. and if you do make it over here i can introduce you to the family of one of the folks the good juror freed. as well as show you the tombstones of 3 of the others . you believe that a juror was the answer to mayes problems? a mistrial will just get him another trial. unless they vote to aquit the state can and often will run it up the flagpole one more time. a juror isn't the answer no matter how heroic it imagines
Yep, not perfect; just better than the fate of those accused being decided by a single man or woman with the state's interest above everyone else's. That is why we have juries as well.
funny i thought the courts were representing the people
even funnier the bleat about fate being decided by one man. isn't that what you're cheering for? oner juror doing what floats his boat rather than judging based on the evidence? is it only cool if hes a frustrated ron paul supporter acting out sans wookie suit? or do you sign off on these cases too?
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.16413/article_detail.asp" On August 19, 1991, after a traffic accident in which a black child was killed by a car carrying a Jewish leader, a black mob rioted down a street in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, shouting "Lets go get the Jews." A Jewish scholar visiting New York named Yankel Rosenbaum was stabbed to death when they encountered him on the street. Within minutes police arrived and apprehended Lemrick Nelson, Jr. at the scene with a bloody knife in his pocket. He was taken to the dying Rosenbaum, who identified Nelson as his attacker. Nelson later admitted the crime to two Brooklyn detectives, and signed a written confession. Prosecutors presented this evidence to a predominantly black jury. They refused to convict Nelson. After the acquittal, jurors celebrated with Nelson at a local restaurant. (Nelson later moved to Georgia and was convicted of slashing a schoolmate.)
" Darryl Smith, a black drug dealer in Washington, D.C., tortured eighteen-year-old African American Willie Wilson to death as he begged for mercy in front of witnesses. Despite massive amounts of evidence linking him to the crime, an all-black D.C. jury acquitted Smith in his 1990 murder trial. According to other jurors, forewoman Valerie Blackmon refused to convict because "she didnt want to send any more young black men to jail." After long deliberations, other members of the panel caved in to Blackmons argument that the "criminal justice system is stacked against blacks" and let Smith off, though most believed that he was guilty. Three weeks after the verdict, a letter from an anonymous juror arrived at D.C. Superior Court expressing regret over the verdict
lots more where that came from rah rah go team