Posted on 05/08/2015 1:49:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A mistrial was declared Friday in the New York trial of the man charged with the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
The jury sent State Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley a note -- the third since April 29 -- saying it was unable to reach a unanimous decision on the guilt or innocence of bodega worker Pedro Hernandez.
On two previous occasions, including Tuesday and Friday, the judge ordered the jury to keep deliberating.
A new court date has been set for June 10. It's unclear whether Hernandez will be retried.
The case involves a boy whose disappearance more than three decades ago sparked an era of heightened awareness of crimes against childrenourt.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Didn’t he confess? oh well. I guess the jury are the only ones that heard everything and they made the wisest decision possible with their superior intelligence and wits/
yeah, I know. But i’s better than a dictatorship.
11 of the jurors thought he was guilty.
the other guy wants to marry the perp/.......
I thought that’s what probably happened. That SUCKS.
He did, but sometimes confessions are coerced by the police, or manipulated out of mentally-troubled people. (Some of the recent cases where convicted people were freed because of DNA evidence involved confessions that turned out to be untrue.) Aside from the confession, there was zero evidence against this guy-- no physical evidence, no witnesses. Had I been on that jury, I might have voted to convict, but I would have thought long and hard about it first.
What I saw in the news did not convince me that the confession was true. Nothing that Hernandez said showed knowledge unique to the killer.
I can imagine a schizophrenic obsessing for years that he committed some ghastly crime. People don’t make false confessions only under the pressure of police interrogation - some come forward and volunteer.
I hear ya. That makes sense. that 12 out of 12 thing is tough
you get one ultra liberal who wouldn’t convict with a video and it’s over.
not saying that’s what happened here though
“Another man’s name has also hung over the Etan Patz case for years: Jose Antonio Ramos, a convicted child molester acquainted with Etan’s babysitter. Etan’s parents, Stan and Julia Patz, sued Ramos in 2001. The boy was officially declared dead as part of that lawsuit.
A judge found Ramos responsible for the boy’s death and ordered him to pay the family $2 million, money the Patz family has not received.”
Well, at least one of these two guys probably didn’t do it I think....
Yes, he did confess. He’s a nut. The family knows who the real murderer is - he’s been serving time for years. The jury did the right thing.
that’s what I get for sending out a post while still in a grouchy mood after getting home.
No problem. NYers have known this story for what seems a thousand years. The killer is already serving time and a nut is walking free...
I’m a NYer but I’m in my own world lol.
What does THAT mean?
um, if someone said that to you right now, maybe a friend, what would It mean to you?
would you just chuckle, or would you also say to them “WHAT DOS THAT MEAN?
No, I’d say: what does that mean, not what dos that mean. No big deal, maybe you’re tired and need to relax with a cocktail!
I’m a GROUCHY IDIOT tonight and am going to stop posting until I have a few and relax. sorry.
I DONT LIKE GRAND JURY DUTY.
Never did grand jury duty! It’s awful. I did so much jury duty in NYC as a youth that I finally put my foot down in front of Judge (”Galligan’s Island- ie, Riker’s Island) Galligan. He was not happy and I served anyway...
Hey! I just got your stab at my quick typing lol. That wasn’t nice. :)
In a free society, it should be.
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