I was refering to the Jury!
I thought maybe you were. "The little ^%$@#^#$% miscreants" could well refer to the jury in this case.
My guess is the jury was made up of soccer moms who're recent arrivals in Warren County. Warren used to be rural and conservative, but like a lot of other formerly nice places here in NJ, it's suffering from an influx of yuppies escaping from the NYC or Philly. They buy into anti-gun propaganda every time (hence the election of gun-grabber Jim McGreevey last year).