What a Shame On No Justice For a Little Girl

The jurors on this case said that they were all crying over the verdict. That's odd. These are the jurors that acquitted her. What went through these people minds, I don't even want to know. But these people are a perfect example of impressionable people taking a constitutional duty to levels that are so high that it comes out of the framework. What does that means? Yes out of the framework as in broken up. They most've heard somewhere that they were supposed to get inside people's mind and find the truth there.  But that was not their charge. They were supposed to weight all the evidence, excluding emotions and rend a verdict. A just verdict to the defendant and to the victim. 


They forgot the victim. They forgot the defendant also. I don't believe that one of the choices should have been the death penalty, but it was on the table and there was something to be paid by the mom of this little girl if deemed guilty.


There is no sense for me to repeat the evidence or the case. I just would like to concentrate very briefly in ordinary people thinking that they are out of the ordinary. These jurors, which by the way were not the peers of the defendant. A special jury from out of town had been called in. Wether that is wrong or right is another argument. My point is how jurors that are crying as they vote not guilty think they were following the instructions from the judge and the duty under their commitment and call.


If once they would have thought about the victim and make sense of the fact that only one person was capable within the limits of the evidence to be guilty. Once they came to an understanding on that it would have been proper for them to think about justice for the victim. Usually jurors are not instructed on thinking about the victim. But that is par of their job since they are there for justice to the victim. If they can be crying which they themselves admit, then someone should have said: Wait a second...If we are so shook up, may be we should discuss why. May stay longer. May be think more carefully. Be Fair!


May be one day smarter american jurors that serve today would be more open minded about not to take the law so serious and use their common since in listening to the arguments one has to find out that someone has to be lying and someone telling the truth. 


May be that is what we need in jurors. Not make everyone be a juror but have jurors that are able to distinguish  between BS and truth . Most of us do that everyday.


What a shame.
adamfoxie*