[TheDon]

The jury, who has all the facts, found him guilty. It's a good bet we ain't getting all the facts.

[eddie2]

"Let's summarize: Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn't named in the warrant, and wasn't a suspect. The man, frigthened for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after the door's been kicked in. Turns out that the man, who is black, has killed the white son of the town's police chief. He's later convicted and sentenced to death by a white jury. The man has no criminal record, and police rather tellingly changed their story about drugs (rather, traces of drugs) in his possession at the time of the raid.

The story gets more bizarre from there."
This is from the agitator.

[Mojave]

The jury, who has all the facts, found him guilty. It's a good bet we ain't getting all the facts.

They have a rationalization ready. The crooked judge must not have let the racist southern jury hear all the facts. Or something like that.

[El Gato]

The jury, who has all the facts, found him guilty That's extremely naive. The judge decides which facts the jury is allowed to hear. Usually that's legitimate and goes to protect the accused. For example past convictions aren't generally admissible during the trial. In those jurisdictions where the jury also sets the punishment, priors are generally admissible during the punishment phase. This scenario played out during a child molestation trial for which a co-worker was the jury foreman. He was somewhat surprised at how long the perps record was, and wished he could have known during the earlier phase as they likely would have convicted on a more serious charge, for which there wasn't enough evidence available, but which was very likely warranted. They did give him the maximum allowable during the punishment phase.

[wardaddy]

It's a good bet we ain't getting all the facts.

that doesn't matter to some of the tinfoil morons on this thread

they've got a trifecta here:

blame it on the WOD or

corrupt Southerners

or racist Southerners

too many self righteous idiots here who would be the first to call another freeper a bigot but can't recognize it in themselves even if it crawls out their hiney