bgoat;6090069 said:
The Lonious Monk;6089032 said:
Well to be fair, as a juror, its not your job to agree with or not agree with a law. It's your job to determine whether the law was broken or not. You can't convict a person for breaking a law simpl because you don't agree with the law as it stands.
Do you really believe this is how it's played out across America in every court case?? Just remember, there have been a lot of overturned convictions. You can't tell me that those people were locked up because the evidence supported it.
Of course not. I'm not saying people do the right thing every time. That doesn't change what the right thing is. People are supposed to vote based on the merits of the case and whether or not it supports the charges. They are not supposed to vote based on their opinion of the particular law in question. Now if you choose to do the latter, that's on you, but you can't walk around acting like you did the right thing and you can't fault people for actually doing the right thing.
Black people can bitch and moan all they want about this, but the fact of the matter is, the case didn't really support a Murder 2 charge. That simply wasn't proven, and it was obvious before the trial even started that they didn't have enough to prove that charge beyond reasonable doubt. So from that standpoint, the juror is right to say it never even should have gone to trial.
Where she is wrong, is she doesn't really even acknowledge that there was a lesser charge of Manslaughter. The only thing in her mind seems to be the Murder charge. You have to blame the Prosecution for that because they did absolutely nothing to sell that to the jury. A lot of us can see that a Manslaughter charge should be a no brainer but believe it or not, there are people who don't think that way and they actually do have reasons why that aren't all that crazy.