Just when you thought the courts couldn’t get any worse, this was videotaped and still not guilty?
/johnny
Remember that actress, forget her name, who was on tape shoplifting big amounts of merchandise from a store? If I recall correctly, she was found not guilty of the most serious charges, even though they had security tapes to view.
Jury nullification at work????
"Oh, wasn't he one of the Berube jurors?"
"Oh, that's right."
"Yup. We'll get right on it, as soon as I find the time."
She just wanted to give him a shave.
The prosecutor went for the gold, attempted murder, and the jury of 12 wasn’t buying that. Only two hours for deliberation shows that they must have had substantial reasons not to convict. I suspect there is a lot more going on with the Rutland PD than is presented in this article and the jury know that. Perhaps the tape also caught the police ignoring her husband hanging himself in the jail and refusing to check on him?