Its really sad about Ashton but who can blame him..after hearing what the alternate juror said on Fox News he probably thought to himself “What’s the point of all of this” he put everything into this case, they had all the proof they needed yet you have 12 idiots who refused to see the truth..yes REFUSED to see the truth..so he is making the right choice. I feel bad for both Jeff Ashton and Linda Drane-Burdick..both are class acts and great lawyers I wish them both well.
Casey Jordan said it best today, she said that common sense died a long time ago, now its not so common anymore for people to have common sense, not in this day and age with CSI Miami and those other crime dramas, people want videotape evidence to convict someone, without that guilty people will continue to walk
I thought that was what was so sad about him retiring—it just speaks volumes about what our justice system is becoming.
What about Ashton? Is he quitting the DA’s office?
1. Jeff Ashton gives his statement on the state of the jury system by announcing that he is retiring. That is loud and clear isn’t it?
2. The defense tried and prosecuted the Anthony family disfunction, and destroyed them, to save his client. Astoundingly, this jury was predisposed to buy into following the soap opera rather than the circumstantial evidence before them.
3. George is said to have hurt the case according to the alternate juror comments by his combat with Baez.
4. The “folksy” style of Baez trumped the professorial style of the academic presentation of the prosecution with this jury.
5. Members of the jury had experiences directly and indirectly with law enforcement themselves, and two were said to be reluctant; one on “judging others”, and the other on the death penalty.