I have no idea what is wrong with some people here but this lambasting is BS IMO.
The negative posters here should be ashamed for attacking a JUROR.
Flame away.
Then I guess the same can be said for all the “Voters” that voted for Obama.
We shouldn’t be second guessing and mocking their decision either.
Just doing their civic duty, right?
I may have to accept the jury verdict but I dont have to respect it. I saw the same evidence they did. they only took 10 hours to go over the testamony? no guily on on counts. Prosecutors did not overreach. They could have come back with manslaughter.
They were just plain lazy and wanted to go home. They are just going to have to live with the critisim.
If several of these jurors felt she did it from the evidence, but met for less than 10 hours. If the Murder 1 bar was too high, they should have spent a hell of a lot more time sorting through the evidence (which was compelling) to see if they should find her guilty of manslaughter or aggravated child abuse. The speed with which they came to these not guilty verdicts is alarming considering that we keep hearing feedback about how they believed she was involved.
This jury was a failure. There were six weeks of testimony and evidence, and it is pretty clear they spent almost no time reviewing it. In the 10 hours, they had to select a foreman on the front end, and work through the paperwork on the back-end, with meals in between. There is no way they properly considered these lesser charges with any significance. In my opinion, they fell for the defenses false claims to muddy the water...and wanted to go home.
For those claiming this was a brilliant example of the system working, I say the opposite. It shows we need reform of how juries are selected and the ability of defense attorneys to rewrite the rules from ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ to ‘beyond any doubt.’ The jury selection process is broken as anyone with critical thinking skills gets weeded out in exchange for ignoramuses.
I am with you on the mob attacking the jurors.
If anyone’s doorstep should be surrounded it should be the prosecutors’. They did not close the case. They could not even determine if the poor child was murdered, and they aim for the highest conviction possible.
In the summation the prosecutor said - Someone in that house murdered that girl. No wonder the jury didn’t convict.
12 jurors came to the conclusion that the prosecutors failed to prove their case. Lay off on the jury who are just regular people doing their civic duty and now being hounded.
From what I’ve heard they didn’t enjoy coming to their decision. Don’t see how they can personally enrich themselves when the verdict is so unpopular.
I also don’t know why the names of jurors have to be revealed and made public. If the judge, prosecution, and defense are satisfied with the jury that should be sufficient.
What is so special about a juror that one should be ashamed for verbally criticizing them? They are not royalty, they do not have honorable in front of their names. They are ordinary people who clearly made a very unpopular decision which is rightly open to scrutiny. The fact that a couple of them have come out and said they felt physically sick at their choice and that they felt she was guilty is enough to make anybody who seeks justice upset!