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mrsammler
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Simply incredible. She is SO obviously guilty. A sociopath who killed her daughter--and she walks. I'm dumbfounded. WTF was the jury thinking???
I was the foreman of 2 juries, one a trivial lawsuit and the other a notorious murder trial in Akron where there was possible reasonable doubt but where the murderer was obviously one of 2 people (each accused the other--hence the reasonable doubt, both ways). My experience of both was that a) most juries are groups of unbelievably unfocused, emotional, unsystematic, superstitious/religious, stubborn/indifferent unskilled thinkers, and b) a good foreman is VITAL to achieving justice, and even then the odds aren't good--there are 11 people for the foreman to somehow corral into a shared decision. The probability of a completely bone-stupid verdict is very high.