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Originally Posted by Banshee
Prosecution didn't prove it's case and went for capital punishment with such a burden of proof.
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Actually they didn't. She was also charged with child abuse and manslaughter. None of those are death penalty eligible crimes. It was not a case of all or nothing.
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Originally Posted by Havok
Gotta love it when people complain about a verdict, but try their hardest to get out of jury duty. If you want to fix the system then why don't you do your civic responsibility and actually not try to get out of jury duty. Then you might be able to convict more of these "guilty" people because you so smart and all.
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Never said I was. Just repeated someone else's quote.
I've been called for jury duty several times and I've always been released on the 1st cut. I never even get interviewed by the lawyers. I'm an engineer, so I'll likely never get chosen. Defense attorneys do not like educated jurors.
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Originally Posted by Banshee
Unless you have smelled a dead human body...and done so as part of your job on a daily basis, could you testify to this. You need to have experience as in an "expert" to testify that the smell you smelled was consistant of that of decomposing human remains based on 23 years of law enforcement experience with "X" police department.
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Her dad was a cop and he testified he smelled human decomposition in the trunk.