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To: vetvetdoug

Women can be a lot different on juries than you imagine.

I was on a jury for a child molestation case (no rape, no physical evidence). First vote it was me voting to convict, 11 to acquit.

Took 4 hours but I convinced everyone to vote to convict; by FAR the hardest to convince were the 7 women - they all thought the victim was lying (and I understand from other lawyers that this is surprisingly common).

So after the verdict we found that the guy had a prior for molesting a girl on a playground; he had med the mother of the victim in our trial in prison for that, but we were not told during the trial what he was in prison for. The women thanked me for persuading them to convict him.

The perp (old guy) freaked out in a rage after the verdict, and then dropped dead of a heart attack the next day.


149 posted on 06/20/2013 5:36:17 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist
The perp (old guy) freaked out in a rage after the verdict, and then dropped dead of a heart attack the next day.

Gotta love a happy ending.

178 posted on 06/21/2013 11:35:57 AM PDT by lawdave
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