That should put a stop to things.
I wonder if the condemned man was white the supreme court would have reached the same ruling?
What Bible was he reading?
“Seven years after his conviction, Tharpe’s lawyers interviewed juror Barney Gattie.”
Utterly ridiculous.
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This is kinda dumb. People need to read up on jury nullification.
And for all we know, the juror was simply coupling her belief regarding the guilt of this man with what she was seeing in the bible. i.e. the bible was “confirming”, at least in her mind, what she saw in this defendant.
But still, this is dumb. The only way it should even be remotely considered would be if she said she found him guilty because she hates black people. What even destroys that is that her opinion simply matched that of the other jurors regarding guilt.
This is an argument based on a ridiculously irrelevant technicality.
OJ got off for the same reason. I’ve testified at multiple trials involving AA defendants, where many of the AA jurors were openly hostile with their body language and actions while I was testifying. In all cases but one, an obviously guilty defendant walked.
Blacks vote for blacks simply for being black. Even civil rights icon John Lewis wants people to vote for “the black candidate”. A great number of blacks hate whites just for being white, but apparently that isn’t a problem.
The DC Grand Jury looks like a BLM Convention without a Republican in the bunch.
Just sayin’...