DURST JURORS' PICTURE PUZZLE (brain dead mutants junk justice)

NY POST ^ | November 13, 2003 | LESLIE T. SNADOWSKY

[Conspiracy Guy]

BTW Scott Peterson is trying to gat a change of venue to Galveston.

"Galveston, oh Galveston.
I still see your headless floatin.
I see killers out there boating.
But there aint no hayed,
So this man caint be dead"

[Ditter]

We have all learned a valuable lesson here. The next time any of us kill someone & cut them up & are too stupid to bury them, we know which lawyers to call.

[texasflower]

Perhaps my post wasn't as clear as I had intended it to be. I did say that the prosecution could have presented other charges that would have made the burden of proof easier. I feel like a different approach in the charges and the presentation of the case could have been different.

The jury was told to disregard the dismemberment. I did say that as well. I agree with you that without being able to consider the dismemberment, the single murder charge was harder to prove.

I don't really blame the jury, I am sorry if it came across that way. The jury was limited in the facts that they were allowed to consider.

[TroutStalker]

The photos include Durst's arsenal of weapons - four guns, dozens of bullets, paring knives, hammers, ropes and bow saws.

Holy crap! I'd hate to see how they would describe my collection of tools and firearms if that is an "arsenal".

[Liz]

With a Galveston jury, Scott Psterson will probably be awarded millions in damages for being a "victim."

[Liz]

To whom it may concern, Liz has my permission to post my likeness whenever she sees fit. Sincerely, Mortimer

Gosh, thanks. That's so sweet.

[Conspiracy Guy]

All the anguish that Lacey's suicide has caused Scott is deserving of a huge award for him.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I trust you to use it wisely and not for commercial purposes.

[Liz]

I would like to see a profile of the make-up of this pathetic jury. I really think that people are becoming too morally corrupt to make the jury system work in this country. With no common sense and no sense of right and wrong, we will have to go to trained professional jurors who may have a clue when it comes to dealing with these slimy defense attorneys. Too bad they don't have to become personally liable for the future actions of the criminals they get off.

Nice take. Common sense. Who woulda ever thought?

[Liz]

Thanks for your trust and confidence. It means so much.

[joathome]

I would have strung up the guy, but I can imagine why they did this. Apparently there was also lots of testimony telling how the victim has raged and had temper tantrums for years. Everywhere he went, it seems someone had a story to tell about him.

It seems the victim was as unsympathetic as the criminal.

[lewislynn]

Jury duty is akin to voting. If you refuse to do it, you have no right to complain about the outcome.

No one who's ever pulled whatever they could to NOT serve on a jury has any right to complain about the leftovers used from the jury pool....

[Liz]

Maybe we should set up a web site of lawyers and change of venue places like Galveston in case you are a serial murderer and chain-saw your victim.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Look closely and you can see a Galveston Juror being born.

[Liz]

Heheh.

[Ditter]

I think that is a great idea. I get so mad sometimes that I feel like I could "cork off" & whack somebody! Of course, those people are usually on TV when I get the urge. I think by the time I could hunt them down my anger would have cooled. I'm really not the murdering sort.

[Conspiracy Guy]

So that makes it ok? Or did I misunderstand you?

[Conspiracy Guy]

But what if it was an accident that you traveled far stalked them down and let your chainsaw get out of control right after your gun accidentally discharged and accidentally dumped them in a body of water without a head. That wouldn't be murdering then would it?

[deport]

This is the statue that the jury had to operate under to find Durst guilty of murder.... The fact that only four jurors voted guilty in the initial vote says a lot about the presentation of the case.

---

§ 19.02. Murder


(a) In this section:


(1) "Adequate cause" means cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection.


(2) "Sudden passion" means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the individual killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation.


(b) A person commits an offense if he:


(1) intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual;


(2) intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual; or


(3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual.


(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a felony of the first degree.


(d) At the punishment stage of a trial, the defendant may raise the issue as to whether he caused the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. If the defendant proves the issue in the affirmative by a preponderance of the evidence, the offense is a felony of the second degree.


Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 1123, ch. 426, art. 2, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/pe/pe0001900.html#pe002.19.02

[Ditter]

Durst tried to board a plane with the head in a bag?????? Why don't police have the head if he did this?