[pnh102]

Wait, it is somehow this juror's fault if the prosecutor failed to make his case?

Sorry, but this is how our system is supposed to work.

[getitright]

You don’t really think that do you?

Can we call you a pedophile if we fail to convince an orangutan otherwise?

[MozarkDawg]

Wait, it is somehow this juror's fault if the prosecutor failed to make his case?

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It was 11 to 1. The holdout was a woman.

“She just looked at things a different way,” said Sarnello.

He says at times jurors were getting hostile towards the holdout juror, but then they realized that she would shut down if she felt attacked.

“We’d listen to a tape and people would be like, ‘wow, that just confirms that he’s guilty’ and she’d say, ‘that just confirms to me that he’s not guilty,’” said Sarnello

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It does not appear that the prosecutor failed to make his case, but that it was not made to the full and complete satisfaction of one woman without the reasonable doubt standard a possiblity, according to the other eleven on the jury.

Our system may indeed be set up for people to foul it because it does rely on honor and honesty. This is why the prosectution gets another shot at it.