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I am glad that a link was provided, both on this thread, and on the previous thread, which profiles the jurors...

At least to my eye, it seems that the jury is a very diverse group....different ethnic backgrounds, different beliefs about the death penalty, different ages, etc. etc, which would lead to different interpretaions of the evidence based on their own experiences in life...hopefully this will lead the jurors to spirited debate, once they meet alone, and begin to discuss the case...

If I have to guess at the outcome, I am going to go with a hung jury....because being such a diverse group, I am not sure that all 12 jurors can agree on one possible outcome, in this particular case...to my eye, its not cut and dry, and just like on these threads, where there is such disagreement as to guilt or innocence, these jurors are going to take the same evidence as we have been, and apply their own life experience and reasoning to that evidence...

Again, I am really upset about this case...if DW is really guilty, but is found not guilty by the jury, and he goes on to murder again, that jury will feel tremendous guilt...on the other hand if he is innocent, but found guilty, we have an innocent man paying a great price for something he did not do, and the real perp is still out there, free to do as he wishes, perhaps murdering another young child...

And if DW is truly innocent, then he is experiencing the ultimate horror story...and what is even more scarey, is that the same thing could happen to me, and to anyone else...

For instance, the neighborhood teen, who mows my lawn, sometimes comes into my house, while I pay him...a few times, he has even used my bathroom...I suppose, his finger prints and DNA are in my house...and I have accidentally accessed porno sites, and tho I have not looked at them, still I am sure, that somewhere on my computer, there is a record of my computer having accessed such sites...

Now if that teen turns up missing and dead, and same night after he mowed my lawn during the day, and I have his fresh DNA in my house, and perhaps he has picked up a fiber from a towel in my house, or pet my cat, and got my cats hair on him, where then do I stand? His DNA in my house, perhaps even blood, should he cut himself on one of my blackberry thorns or rose bud thorns outside...my cats fur or towel fibers on him...and porno sites on my computer...and cops and DA anxious to catch a perp....well, stranger things have happened, I suppose they could look at me as a possible suspect...

This is kind of like what I think might have happened to DW.....I am not saying he is innocent, because I really dont know...but I am saying, that my scenario, tho simplistic, could resemble what has happened to DW, tho there are more points of evidence in his case, then in my case between me and my lawn mower boy...

Innocent people have been railroaded and guilty people have been set free....both prospects are frightening...

I just hope that the jury is earnest in their deliberations, and I also pray that God will grant them the wisdom that they need to decide this case...