Or maybe they would have just rendered a guilty verdict for the sake of self protection. This way all the prosecution has to say is, “she did it” and rest his case.
It works both ways.
“Or maybe they would have just rendered a guilty verdict for the sake of self protection....It works both ways.”
You could be right. But something needs to be done to restore the public’s faith in the integrity of our jury system. It would have been easier for me to accept their verdict if they’d actually taken the time to deliberate. Just 11 hrs (less time for picking a foreperson, reading/understanding the rules, meals and breaks) for a 6-week trial tells me their minds were already made up when they went into the jury room.