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Got him convicted already on the basis of a news story, eh? Hope they don’t pick you for the jury.

No. I didn’t say that. I’ve served on several juries over the years and I followed the judge’s instructions to stay impartial and only take into consideration the rule of law and the evidence presented during the trial. I haven’t convicted him on anything. I’m only expressing an opinion as just an average shmuck and not as a juror. However the only evidence presented so far is from the news story so that’s all I have to go by. If further evidence presents it’s self, I’m entitled to and might very well form a different opinion. If she physically attacked him, that might be a different story or if he didn’t lay a hand on her and she’s just making a case out of whole cloth, that’s another thing completely.

With that being said however, what if my next door neighbor is a cop and he lets his dog poop in my yard without cleaning it up and after asking him nicely several times to stop letting his dog poop in my yard, I get angry and have a verbal confrontation with him?

Say I call him a “pig” and then he pummels me in the face and breaks my jaw? If he’s just a neighbor, I have a legal case against him. If he’s a cop I also have some justification to say he’s not fit to be a cop. Do you not agree?

What does that have to do with you already convicting the cop in the news article? Zip.

I think “anger management problems” was a good call, based on the other news sources we’ve seen.