And you managed to outsmart them eh? Nothing about the fact that they are lawyers and knowledgeable gave you the impression that you might be going the wrong direction?
I was on a death penalty jury one time. It was 10-2 innocent/guilty. I was one of two guilty votes. I can tell you that logic is in short supply in society in my observation. The other 10 were hopping mad when they found out the other things the perp had done (just not in this specific crime) just before the judge dismissed us. Radio reports today still refer to Aubry as the black jogger in the white neighborhood.
“Nothing about the fact that they are lawyers and knowledgeable gave you the impression that you might be going the wrong direction?”
You can find 100 lawyers who DISAGREE with them for everyone who agrees. And no, I do not blindly believe ANY lawyer!
Their rationale was bad. I read a decision a few years ago that went at length about what was meant by immediate knowledge. The dudes didn’t have it. And they view the second sentence in the old Georgia law separately from the first while I think it FLOWS from the first. They didn’t have probably cause.
And the jury obviously agreed with my take.
I also object to taking a law from before the Civil War and trying to shoehorn it into giving people the right to grab guns, chase someone they merely SUSPECT and then threaten to kill him! DAMN STUPID, and they will have a lifetime in prison to regret their honest but STUPID, ILLEGAL action.