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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
It shouldn't matter who you are or what your background is or beliefs are.

When you serve as a judge or a juror you have to set all that aside.

You must judge any particular case based on the evidence presented and the law.

Nothing else.

Unless you and other jurors do a jury nullification of a law.

26 posted on 09/03/2015 6:57:35 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Mogger

That is an ideal. Tragically, far too often other factors come into play.

One that made me wince was the trial of a child killer in California. The evidence was damning. As the jury was led out to carry out their deliberations, the killer flipped them off.

After the guilty verdict, one of the jurors said, “I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until he flipped us off. Then I knew he was guilty.”

Even this was not enough to overturn the sentence and declare a mistrial.


27 posted on 09/03/2015 8:14:34 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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