Isn't it amazing that a jury can quickly convict on a convoluted financial scam while another jury hemmed & hawed in the penalty-phase for a convicted terrorist, Moussaui (sp?). It simply can't be that the terrorism case was more complicated than a high-powered series of fraudulent financial schemes.
It's because of the death penalty that it took so long.
That's an interesting point you made. I wonder why too.
This is houston. Responsible citizens go to jury duty and pay attention. I've been two times and both times i had people as equally as conservative as I. Maybe they need to run terror trials here. not in the liberal belly of the beast on the east coast.
I wonder how many people would be convicted if you applied financial fraud law to the Social Security adminstration?
As much as anything, Lay and Skillin were caught in a market collapse and being in a leveraged position, they got caught in the downdraft and didn't know how to get out of it.
You are on target concerning Moussaui. Think about OJ Simpson with all the DNA evidence in world and he walks free after slitting two throats and keeps his $600,000/yr pension following conviction in a civil case. Go figure.
Location is everything. Those in Virginia do NOT get it like us Texans do. WOT is the real deal...many in Virginia think in their prissy little elitist thinking way... nuff said.
Well, it took them 6 days to sort through it all, and from the sound of it, very thoroughly.
Contrast this with the OJ verdict, which was spewed in less than 1 hour. The juror who was interviewed soon after and asked why they decided so quickly gave a hilarious response: "We're not stupid! You KNOW what I and 80% of Americans were thinking at that point.
Jury pools, like gene pools, make all the difference.
Amazing in one respect, but not on another - When I last served on a jury, the instructions from the judge were far from clear... some jurors had some doubt that the defendant may have pulled the trigger, but wading through the definition of complicity in our state and determining if it applied was difficult at best.... had he worded things slightly differently, it would have been much easier....