“They can run this dog and pony show all they want. All it takes is ONE juror with some common sense and all four walk free.”
Agreed. But that juror is gonna receive intense pressure in the jury room.
Worse yet, any juror who votes to acquit is gonna have to disappear. As much as we like to believe that the names of jurors will be kept secret, you’ll always find someone in the court system who makes a “clerical error” and releases the name of the dissenting juror(s) or who slips the name to “friends” of theirs - who in turn, pass the juror’s name to other “friends” of theirs.
Call me cynical but the pressure to find the cops guilty will be huge - within the jury room and afterwards.
I’m maybe six miles from where it happened. People around here say it was an overdose. Not many believe it was murder.