I served on a jury two years ago on a case of a pedophile who was pulling up to bus stops occupied by little girls and masturbating in front of them. To me is was a slam dunk because of numerous eye witnesses and the car description including license plate number.
Two jurors were going to vote to acquit because of the timeline. Notably that part of the scenario involved him dropping the BMW off at the dealership and getting a rental. They said that they couldn’t get service that fast at that dealership!
Two others were going to acquit because being on the Sex Offenders List would ruin his life.
Finally some sense was talked into them and we had decided on the maximum, ten years just to find out that he plea bargained a guilty verdict in exchange for six years.
We found out later that he had prior convictions and pending charges for the same activity. Had it not been for a few of us non-idiots and his plea he would have gone free.
The idiots on my Grand Jury never in a month grasped the difference between “beyond a reasonable doubt” (the job of a courtroom jury) and “probable cause” (the standard for the grand jury.) Also, it was beyond their ability to comprehend, that the district attorney wanted to indict a couple of flunkies only in order to make them spill the beans on the bigger fish in exchange for leniency. The flunkies got away scotfree.
On the mock jury organized by the deep pockets defendant, the idiots could not accept that a corporation has a right to profit from the sale of its products.
That's astounding and quite sickening.
People with that kind of attitude are thankfully still the minority here in Texas...or so I hope. Were these two newly arrived Yankees by any chance?