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tazzygirl -> RE: UNMODERATED ZIMMERMAN (7/12/2013 5:21:26 PM)
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When you sit on a jury you take an oath to come to an unbiased fair verdict. If you reach that verdict on the basis of things having nothing to do with the facts of the case you have violated your oath.
Don't you think, for example that a not guilty verdict would have been in the best interest of the jury in the Mississippi Burning case. But would you or anyone else say it would have been ok to do so.
With self interest being acceptable grounds for reaching a verdict why not just do a poll for A the most popular verdict and B the verdict most likely to have repercussions then we don't even need a jury.
Where did anyone say self interest was grounds for a verdict?
Now, we have charged 6 women, some with small children, the task of finding Z innocent or guilty. Its amazing how no one has thought about how this is affecting, or going to affect, their lives. Find him guilty, or innocent, and these women will surely feel the fall out for their decision. A hung jury will make both sides of the issue angry.
As much as we all want to be arm chair lawyers and juries... we arent... those 6 women are. Its now in their hands.. and I cant help but feel sorry for them no matter how they rule.
If Z gets convicted now, it just may be overturned on appeal. Who knows. But as much anger as this case has generated... and widely evidenced on these many, multiple threads... would any of you not think about yourselves as you are trying to decide this man's future?
Just to remind you of what I did say.
I expect them to do the job there were told they had to do.
Be that as it may, there isnt a single person on that jury who isnt putting themselves in the same place as at least one of the members of the families affected by all this.
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