Do we know the WHOLE story?
I am sure many of us want to read the trial transcript(s) and see for ourselves if the “guilty verdict is appropriate!
If you haven't already, you're a little late to this game.
You may very well be right. If we had have sat on that jury we may very well have convicted too. To me the travesty was the sentence. They got hammered with a ten year mandatory sentence for using a firearm in the commission of a crime. The judge had no choice but to give them this sentence because there was a mandatory minimum sentence, and of course the drug smuggler caught twice got less time because that's what the sentencing guidelines called for. If people learn anything from this I'd like to see them learn that long mandatory minimum sentences aren't always such a good thing, that we should have very few of these in our criminal statutes because so often we have cases where the mandatory minimum sentence is way too much when you look at the actual underlying conduct in a particular case.