1. Jeff Ashton gives his statement on the state of the jury system by announcing that he is retiring. That is loud and clear isn’t it?
2. The defense tried and prosecuted the Anthony family disfunction, and destroyed them, to save his client. Astoundingly, this jury was predisposed to buy into following the soap opera rather than the circumstantial evidence before them.
3. George is said to have hurt the case according to the alternate juror comments by his combat with Baez.
4. The “folksy” style of Baez trumped the professorial style of the academic presentation of the prosecution with this jury.
5. Members of the jury had experiences directly and indirectly with law enforcement themselves, and two were said to be reluctant; one on “judging others”, and the other on the death penalty.
Baez needs a trenchcoat, a cigar butt, and an old junk car. What a Hero.
You have summed it up very nicely. Thanks!