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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I say we accept the verdict of the jury.
The defense failed to prove guilt without a reasonable doubt.
That’s the way the American judicial system works.


13 posted on 07/12/2011 4:36:05 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: patriot08
"I say we accept the verdict of the jury."

What does that mean? We all do recognize what the jury decided. There's absolutely no obligation to agree with them.

"The defense failed to prove guilt without a reasonable doubt."

I think you mean the prosecution. That's only one possibility. Another is that they did prove and the jury failed to recognize it.

"That’s the way the American judicial system works."

Yes. So? Doesn't mean any given jury can't be wrong.

16 posted on 07/12/2011 4:43:32 PM PDT by mlo
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To: patriot08

Say what?

There are two hundred million Americans, to be exact, who will NEVER, EVER accept the verdict of the lazy, idiot, moron, Dumbass, Democrat jurors with $$$ in their eyes. So stop trying.

p.s. - try proof reading your posts ... the “Defense” failed to prove their case”?? Yes, we agree with that statement even tho the stupid jurors bought it hook, line and sinker. But that’s not what you meant, is it?


17 posted on 07/12/2011 4:46:44 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: patriot08

But did the system work? If some on the jury, as has been reported, sometimes slept/stared off into space through portions on the prosecutor speaking in the past, didn’t take notes, etc, etc, then did the system work?

These broadbrush stroke, sweeping generalizations that no matter the verdict, “the system works” are getting old.

Alot of these people who say the system worked, would not be saying that if a murder 1 verdict was rendered. Not because of the verdict, but only because they are opposed to the death penalty.

Which makes me wonder if some jury members were so p-od at the prosecutor going after murder 1 that they didn’t even render the lowest possible of the three verdicts possible (aside from counts 4-7).


56 posted on 07/12/2011 7:05:56 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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