Comments on: Jury hung in Freddie Gray trial…

By: Frog

Frog — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:25:44 +0000

Another judge, this one in Brooklyn.
How do these people get admitted to law school? Affirmative Action?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/carolyn-walker-diallo-muslim-judge-sworn-koran-article-1.2467218

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:13:27 +0000

Remember the Rodney King case where the cops were first found not guilty by a jury and then the feds found an old law from the civil war and prosecuted the cops again to obtain a guilty verdict? If you have enough laws the prohibition against double jeopardy doesn’t apply. Did you know there are about 4000 federal felonies? They will get the cops on something. Harvey Silverglate wrote a book on the subject.
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229

By: Baklava

Baklava — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:24:42 +0000

Omg, there is other news.

Conservatives are of sound like mind on this. If a person is guilty of murder they should be convicted even if the person is a cop.

Liberals want action it seems regardless of the law.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:55:16 +0000

Read Tom Wolfe’s “Back to Blood.”

After the OJ Simpson case and reading that book, I totally believe your story.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 05:24:27 +0000

And this judge should have known better as he tried criminal cases against cops.

In NE civil cases there is an instruction against quotient verdicts. My cousin was on a monster jury case and they did exactly that!

By: J.J.

J.J. — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 05:11:21 +0000

Has anyone here ever sat on a jury in a racially charged case? I haven’t, but my brother has. Black defendant who held up a K-Mart with a gun. My brother was a juror. You would not believe the threats he received. He did his duty and none of the threats (burn his house down, kidnap his daughter, kill him) were carried out. He was extra careful for over a year, then decided to move to reduce his exposure.

I have to believe that some of these jurors have been threatened as well. We know that a not guilty verdict is going to result in more rioting and chaos. They need to move the trials out of Baltimore.

By: T

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:26:28 +0000

should be:

“guilty or not guilty, not kinda guilty”

By: T

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:25:28 +0000

As I get older, I have come to believe that compromise is sorely overrated. Neo’s post makes that abundantly clear; guilty or not guilty, not kind guilty. Another example:

Politician A wants to raise taxes 20%.

Politician B doesn’t want to raise taxes at all.

The compromise is a 10% tax increase.

Politician A gets half of what s/he wants, but politician B gets absolutely none of what s/he wants.

So where, exactly, is the compromise?

“He may be playing to an audience larger than 12 jurors. “[Frog]

That is a damning critique of what our system of jurisprudence has devolved into. Courts (and juries) should be ruling on the facts of the case and on the precepts of law. They should not be playing to the consensus of an audience.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:24:45 +0000

Porter has to be found guilty of something, nothing less than blood will appease the mob.

By: Frog

Frog — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 02:37:18 +0000

That would be judge Barry Williams. ABC didn’t get his name right, but ah well, details. He is elected to his position. He may be playing to an audience larger than 12 jurors. Especially in Baltimore. It has been known to happen.

In the era of moral relativism, we may be disappointed in the good judge’s words, but we are surely not surprised.