A what? Oh well...
Posted on 06/17/2017 7:30:29 AM PDT by Jolla
Will be interesting to see how the jury split, including by sex and race.
A what? Oh well...
I thought the judge could find that jeopardy had attached, and declare that a defendant could not be retried.
Basically, the judge applies his own judgement to the case. If he thinks the prosecution has not proven the case to his satisfaction, he can bar them from taking another bite at the apple.
You can indict a ham sandwich, but you can’t prosecute a ham sandwich indefinitely.
>>So the prosecution has to decide whether or not to re-try the case, is that correct?<<
I watch Law & Order every Saturday AM (watching now).
My 2 biggest frustrations are they NEVER re-try hung jury cases and they don’t prosecute for perjury.
The other is the DA does investigations on its own when in RL the cops do all the investigation work and the DA just prosecutes, period.
People have known long before what he was up to, and he even dropped hints in his comedy routines. He’s a very sick, sick person and must have a real pathological hatred of women to do this to them. His wife is even worse, looking the other direction as he’s done this for the duration of their marriage.
So he’s well hung...
Like with Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation.
If I'm on a jury, if a woman has continued a relationship with a man after a supposed "sexual assault", then that undermines her accusation.
A judge can enter a “directed verdict” for the defendant which has the same effect as an acquittal. This can be done upon defense motion either at the conclusion of the state’s case or at the conclusion of all testimony.
That is not what happened.
In this case, the judge declared a mistrial because the jury was hopelessly deadlocked.
The prosecutor must now decide whether or not he wishes to retry the case but there is no double jeopardy based on this result.
Right from the start I knew this was not going to be a winner.
Ok, well I strongly suspected it.
First, the left hates Bill Cosby as he plays a normal middle class black man with a normal family and can’t have that. Second, I’m thinking there was something to those women’s stories but it seems to me, sitting out here in la-la land where I didn’t hear what the jury heard....but Cosby appeared to have remained friends with them and paid many of them off.
And I really disliked that woman with the big haha hair, I know it’s not fair but there was something about her made me want to smack her silly.
Then they all remain friends with Cosby over the years and continue to socialize with him?
Somebody tell Gloria Allred to get a real life.
Yeah, Cosby did wrong. But I’m thinking those women knew it and he probably felt like it was all right, being a big star and everything.
He committed no crime and does not deserve to go to jail the rest of his life at age 80.
Where the hell is the National Organization for Women?
I think he changed, for the worse, after his son died in that freak accident.
Being a woman, if that happened to me, I would be with my Attorney, the Police at the ER demanding a ‘rape kit’ test and on from there...
I have followed this and I think there was ‘money bags’ involved, kinda like the ‘Hockey Team’ situation...turns out she was a ‘prostitute’ and they were let off...
The attorney for some of the women was Gloria Allred.
I rest my case.
Objection here, objection there! And that nice policeman giving his evidence so well - beautiful speaking voice ... well after a bit all I could do was bang my little gavel.
Remember the verdict in the OJ Simpson criminal trial? No surprise with this result. Our form of government and judicial system are intended only for a moral citizenry.
I have my doubts about this too, for the reasons you gave.
He’s 80. They’re wasting tax payer money. There should be a statute of limitations on this sort of thing.
Like it or not, you have to prove it in a courtroom, and this case effectively boiled down to a he said she said about an event that happened 12 years ago.
Honestly, anyone surprised that it didn’t end in a conviction is naive IMHO.
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