"Remember, the judge told the jurors they can consider the prior accusations. The boy who is the youth pastor was very credible on the stand.
Who cares whether the mother is whacked ?"
They shouldn't care, and I agree about the youth pastor, but juries seem not to want to put celebrities in jail for some reason.
I was on a jury two years ago, and after two days of testimony two ladies sat in the jury room and announced that only God could judge, so they didn't think they should. As the jury forewoman, I about flipped. Luckily, I remembered that they had sworn to come to a verdict, and that was what saved us from being a hung jury.
LA juries, don't..this one does.....BTW..remember that all the legal talking heads were telling us just before the Scott Peterson verdict that the prosecution had done a terrible job..
I had a similar experience once when I was on a jury. I asked one of the two who refused to convict since they said they were against the death penalty, "In other words, you lied to the DA when you said that you could vote to convict the defendant to death?" She lashed out at me for stating the truth about her lying.
I'm always amazed that juries ever come to an agreement at all, given all those different kinds of personalities and temperaments thrown into one room.