Jury Mistake FREES man in California

[Bekeart]

Jury Mistake FREES man in California

A burglary defendant walked out of a Central California courtroom a free man after a jury mistakenly signed a not-guilty verdict form.

Man Freed in California Jury Mistake Killed - ABC News

This could be a blonde lawyer joke; EXCEPT no lawyers were involved in the mistake.

Bekeart

 

[Comrad]

IQ testing is not part of the jury selection process.

 

[shouldazagged]

IQ testing is not part of the jury selection process.

Quite the opposite in some cases.

 

[Waywatcher]

...mistakenly signed a not guilty verdict form. Hours later, he was stabbed to death in a fight.

It appears he may have been the recipient of Cosmic Justice...

 

[Doug M.]

That is an amazingly hard error to make if the verdict forms are like the ones here in WA. How hard? I'd say it's time to file 12 Guardianships. That hard.

 

[SteveA]

Apparently the released defendant was stabbed to death a couple of hours after his release by his sister's boyfriend.

 

[therevjay]

I guess that's what you call Good luck/bad luck.

 

[rwsmith]

If lawyers don't see sympathy.....

If lawyers don't see sympathy they will take the next best thing. Malleability.

 

[LVSteve]

Reads like a scene from Final Destination.

 

[feralmerril]

Yeah, he was stabbed to death just hours later. Thats ironic as it gets!

 

[skrazo]

Rumor has it that jury members each carried a "long" ball of string with them so they could find their way to and from the trial! (You know, like Huck Finn)

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

The system is flawed.
Anyone have a better way?????

 

[gm272gs]

Wait until his next of kin sue the court.

"OBVIOUSLY he was guilty! If You had found him guilty, he would still be alive in jail! It's your fault that he's dead!"

 

[feralmerril]

Didnt the indians put a hot knife on the tongue of a brave on trial? If your lying and scared you cant create saliva and its burns your tongue. Now if you arent lying and are brave (pun intended) you can slobber and wont get burnt. Read it in a comic book. Crude, but effective. Heap cheap too! Unnnh salavish!

 

[DeadAye]

If lawyers don't see sympathy they will take the next best thing. Malleability.

Here they just take money

 

[Calaveras Slim]

Wait until his next of kin sue the court.

"OBVIOUSLY he was guilty! If You had found him guilty, he would still be alive in jail! It's your fault that he's dead!"

silly as that sounds, it just may happen. I say, go for it. The idiot jurors and attorneys should pay for their ineptness.

 

[gdnagle]

Jury Mistake FREES man in California

A burglary defendant walked out of a Central California courtroom a free man after a jury mistakenly signed a not-guilty verdict form.

Man Freed in California Jury Mistake Killed - ABC News

This could be a blonde lawyer joke; EXCEPT no lawyers were involved in the mistake.

Bekeart

Maybe the form wasn't written bilingual.

Wait until his next of kin sue the court.

"OBVIOUSLY he was guilty! If You had found him guilty, he would still be alive in jail! It's your fault that he's dead!"

Catch 22 here, the courts could come back and say that if his mother didn't have him they would not have mistakenly released him so sue his mother.


At least some folk defending his self won't have to go to court for shooting him when he broke into the wrong house that was protected with a firearm.

 

[feralmerril]

This looks like a God corrected mistake.

 

[DeadAye]

While the lawyer is correct - *there's no death penalty for burglary* the rest of us aren't really going to miss a career criminal.

 

[Doug M.]

^ Uh, there may well be if one is interrupted in progress by an armed resident.