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In reply to the discussion: About that young lady the cop brutally attacked over the pool party.... [View all]herding cats
(19,585 posts)The jurors took all the evidence into consideration? From reading their decisions at least two of them appear to have said as much. Which means it's not outside of the ream of possibility to believe the other two may have had similar feelings and didn't want to, or know how to put them into words.
I know I read a whole discussion before I make my decision when I'm on a jury. It's too easy for someone to be sly and say awful things in one post that if not taken in context of the conversation would not seem so bad, and sometimes I've left things when I realized the person being responded to was the one who had been saying the awful things and the alerted was fairly reacting to those things. Which is the very definition of mitigating circumstances. I think too many people here are only looking at the one post and basing their decisions on that single post in a discussion when they're on a jury. Which is leading to people playing malicious games and getting away with them far too often. It makes DU suck when we let people get away with being ugly here.