[Still Thinking]

Put me on the jury in a case like that and the homeowner walks. In fact that happened once in the late 1970s out in Western Maryland but that was before the internet age and you won't turn up anything about it on google.

I bet the guy moved far far away the week after his acquittal. Or died under mysterious circumstances within a year or two.

[wendy1946]

The guys lawyer correctly pointed out that on St. Valentine’s Day, 1929, all of Al Capone’s employees were dressed up like cops... Jury took about fifteen minutes to find the guy totally innocent. That was for wasting two state cops and at least two federal agents who had busted his door down with no warning or anything of the sort on a bad tip.