[SaintDismas]

unanimously voted to convict>>>

Well fine, Mr. Lawyer, so you want to give the jury every benefit of the doubt, which is right. But why don't you give the same due consideration to, let's see, 1/4 of the jury who said they were coerced into their guilty vote? Address this please

[TKDietz]

I don't know anything about one quarter of the jury saying they were coerced into voting guilty. It's pretty common for people to feel that way though. They may be on the fence but the other jurors are wanting to get it over with and go home so they really lean on the holdouts to vote guilty. They did not have to go for a guilty verdict though. They'd have been there a lot longer probably, but eventually the judge would have declared a hung jury and then the deal for these two agents probably would have gotten a lot better as the prosecutors would have been far less gung ho to take this case to trial a second time after one jury shot them down.

Look, I don't know much about this case. None of us do. I'm just kind of amused by the fact that so many are ready to riot over this when none of us really have all the facts. I've been in this business a long time and I'm just no so quick to jump to conclusions without having all the facts. Juries are not always right though. Justice is not always served in our system. It may be that these two were totally screwed. Then again it may very well be that they were guilty as can be and deserved to be convicted. Did they deserve such lengthy prison sentences if they were guilty? I don't know about that. It seems like they got hammered pretty hard for what they were accused of doing.