I agree with the verdict but obviously not with the death sentence as should be obvious from my comments in this thread. As for the jury, they made me sick listening to them. Rush is playing their comments now.
One idiot said, I wish I could have heard from him. I wish he would have taken the stand. I don't think I have ever heard any attorney suggest this would be a good idea. Did we have a juror that did not understand why he did not appear in his own defense? (besides the fact he is guilty and would have been ripped to shreads)
These jurors may have reached the right verdict in the criminal portion of the case, but they are in real la la land (must be a San Francisco thing). The ones that were interviewed anyhow.
They don't seem the type to judge by weird hypotheticals. It was enough to consider the facts in the case, and consider them reasonably. RWC is not SF. Frankly, even the west side, the Sunset district, of SF is not SF, as you mean it.
The people around there, locally and who drove in, were not generally opposed-to. As I said, one 'beach-bum' looking guy, maybe in his fifties, shaggy hair, skin and bones, approached the chubby Examiner-girl handing out those freebie papers (that were all of 60 pages, which is less than it sounds). She had been surrounded by cameramen told to get some 'background' on the crowd. And this obliging woman was dramatically holding up a paper with the word - DEATH - featured over the fold (the Examiner, btw, is the bankrupt, and now struggling under new private Asian-ownership, I think, paper that once competed with and combined with the Chronicle in the Sunday edition - no more). She obviously was there to supply the stand-ups with a paper and a headline, for the worldwide coverage, in hopes it would get the fledgling Examiner some publicity. And this 'beach-bum' sort approached this woman, cameras rolling, and said - I'm OPPOSED to the death penalty. But he was such an obviously desperate nut, that even the background-seeking cameramen kept the shot on her. And then another guy walked past, as I said before.
What you suggest what not a popular opinion there, except perhaps with those manequins in the tents - if you've ever seen a reporter in full dress, you'd think it was something that just escaped from the wax museum. That can't be a real person, you say. It just doesn't look real. And then it starts to speak - and it's startling. They look MUCH more lifelike on camera, and nicer too. The local gal for KGO, one of about four or five on the scene, was scowling as I stood behind Allred. Maybe she didn't like Allred. But, you never see those expressions somehow. And she was being fed live to stations all around the Bay Area. It's much different in person. Disappointing. And awfully scary.
Anyhow.