If all the jurors do not agree on Death, say 10 to 2 or 11 to 1, they then would fill out the form saying not in agreement on penalty and then, it is my understanding, the Judge makes the final decision. Does the Judge get to know exactly how close they came to being unanimous before reaching a penalty deadlock and can the Judge use the majority of the vote statistic in weighing her sentence of penalty??? Am I making sense? So if the jury is 11 for death and 1 for LWOP, the judge has to sentence to LWOP or could the judge go renegade and decide Life with Parole even tho the jury was so close to a death verdict. Also, the judge cannot impose a death sentence if the jury wasn't unanimous on Death, correct??
Nothing that DT pulled today was a surprise. They have had years and months overall and a longer span of time since the guilt phase than most defendants have between stages. They have planned out their strategy with every possible outcome scenario, not that the verdict was a surprise even to them. They have been more than prepared since day one. These are just routine filings and contemporaneously trying to make themselves look less like a losing side in the trial. They will blame the loss on the defendant, which is exactly where the blame should be. They did their best with what they had, and have used or attempted to use every lawyer trick in the book. She had a more than an adequate defense. Their only huge error imo was leaving CMja on the stand for 18 days, but how can they be expected to 'control their client' when their client has lived her whole adult life and some of her teens refusing to be controlled by anyone.
There are no issues for appeal that I can think of or remember.
Maybe I should go to the Legal Thread and see if this has been discussed and dissected before I post it here. Hmmm no place to save a Draft. :banghead::banghead::scared::scared::scared::banghead::banghead:
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