AlwaysShocked
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AWOL for one day here and I am behind!
JUST with what I've have heard so far from jurors, I am DAMN grateful they were somehow able to reach the 1st Degree Murder conviction!
Just saw a short clip from a newly public female juror. She was saying "with the instructions we had". Which instructions, if anyone knows, is she referring to? The written instructions of the court or the instructions of the jury foreman?
I have had the personal experience of having to sit with a certain family member of mine to read "legal type" documents. Insurance policies, a Durable Power of Attorney with a springing clause, an online article about duties and powers of a POA, etc. It is amazing to me how many misinterpretations of what was printed in black and white in front of them this person made. And this is not a stupid person.
I also have had the experience of sitting on the Board of Directors for a homeowner's association where there is a small group of people reading a clause in the recorded By-laws. Again, just amazing to hear the various, different interpretations OF A SENTENCE!
My experience has been that people bring along a lot of "what they want it to say" when they are making a decision on "what something says". And I guess this is why we have the Supreme Court to "interpret" what the Constitution of the U.S. was meant to convey.
At this point, barring juries attending formal instructional classes prior to deliberating, I think they need to be asking a whole lot more questions of the judge. But maybe they didn't understand that they didn't understand.
The 1st question they did pose (after only a couple of hours), however, supposedly had an "if" in it. As in "what IF we can't reach a unanimous decision?" Apparently they were not told that if they did not reach a unanimous decision this phase of the trial would be declared a mistrial? Why not, I wonder?
Bottom line: THANK YOU JURY for the "Guilty" verdict!
JUST with what I've have heard so far from jurors, I am DAMN grateful they were somehow able to reach the 1st Degree Murder conviction!
Just saw a short clip from a newly public female juror. She was saying "with the instructions we had". Which instructions, if anyone knows, is she referring to? The written instructions of the court or the instructions of the jury foreman?
I have had the personal experience of having to sit with a certain family member of mine to read "legal type" documents. Insurance policies, a Durable Power of Attorney with a springing clause, an online article about duties and powers of a POA, etc. It is amazing to me how many misinterpretations of what was printed in black and white in front of them this person made. And this is not a stupid person.
I also have had the experience of sitting on the Board of Directors for a homeowner's association where there is a small group of people reading a clause in the recorded By-laws. Again, just amazing to hear the various, different interpretations OF A SENTENCE!
My experience has been that people bring along a lot of "what they want it to say" when they are making a decision on "what something says". And I guess this is why we have the Supreme Court to "interpret" what the Constitution of the U.S. was meant to convey.
At this point, barring juries attending formal instructional classes prior to deliberating, I think they need to be asking a whole lot more questions of the judge. But maybe they didn't understand that they didn't understand.
The 1st question they did pose (after only a couple of hours), however, supposedly had an "if" in it. As in "what IF we can't reach a unanimous decision?" Apparently they were not told that if they did not reach a unanimous decision this phase of the trial would be declared a mistrial? Why not, I wonder?
Bottom line: THANK YOU JURY for the "Guilty" verdict!