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In reply to the discussion: Help me understand something about the Trayvon Martin case. [View all]hollysmom
(5,946 posts)I can't really talk, I served on a jury where I knew the guy was guilty, just knew it, and the lawyer was prosecuting her first case and also was no bright light, worst presentation ever, no follow up questions, no objections to pure theatrics - the defense was a drama king, and seemed to exaggerate, i.e. lie, to the extremes. we were denied by the judge the ability of looking at the transcript (he said this is a simple case, we should have listened).... and so it went, we had to let him go because the evidence was shown was a he said she said, even though there were half a dozen people there, we were only provided with the one witness - and this was for armed robbery. The excuse was that he was kidding he was not robbing them, because that is a funny joke, but he did not know any of these people. but that was not even challenged by the prosecutor. and so and so on. We all knew he was guilty, but we all voted to let him go. Hated it.