[at bay]

“not ONE held out for the lesser count of manslaughter”

Maybe because they knew they’d be there one minute longer?

When I worked on the pipeline, even years ago, we made fantastic money. But even though we were well fed and housed and piling up the dough, one by one, everyone in my crew quit. Including myself.

Sequestration needs to be thoroughly examined for the future. I hear it is extremely rare, and the 2 I know of-—OJ and slutmom. are both NG in trials with prosecutors typically winning 90+% of their cases.

[ken5050]

You could be onto something there...If ONE juror had held out..they'd probably have deliberated through the weekend, then told the judge they were deadlocked, and he'd have sent them back, admonishing them to try hard, for at least another few days..so they may well have chosen the path of least resistance.

However, as they were there every day, and heard the testimony, saw the evidence..you'd think they'd be eager to get justice for the little child..

Our jury system is similar to Ben Franklin's description of democracy.." a terrible way to govern, but far better than anything else we have.." ( don't recall the exact quote..)