The person that wrote this article is assuming the jury has found him guilty on the 200+ counts and is only undecided on two...
I think it is FAR more likely that the jury found him innocent on the 200+ counts, and is hung on only two.
I have no faith in my fellow citizens.
Exactly.
And this jury will confirm our national cult of Moloch.
God help us.
You may well be correct. But if so, it may just be to stupidity. I've been on several minor municipal court juries and the stupidity and cowardice are amazing. There's always someone who "feels uncomfortable" judging anybody and should therefore not have been allowed on a jury in the first place. Then there are those who expect the prosecution to present such an open and shut case that they consider the prosecution to have failed if they do not produce a slam-dunk. I constantly hear these idiots complain that "the prosecution didn't do a good job proving such-and-such" as if the prosecution is on trial.
I have argued with some of these jurors by explaining that "we're here to sift the evidence and make a decision. Otherwise there'd be no reason for us to be here". America has been dumbed down too much to produce competent juries.
“I have no faith in my fellow citizens.”
Nor do I. Especially city-dwelling liberal pro-choicers who are loathe to convict a brother.