Within the drama of Thursday’s acquittal of one suspect and the hung jury on the gunman in the trial of the quadruple murders in Mattapan, a legal mini-drama spilled from the jury room at Suffolk Superior Court to the judge’s bench - one that is equal parts unusual and, to many, infuriating.
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She saw too much TV and decided to become famous! The world is insane!
Disturbing if true. If the juror in question did indeed say, 'I don't think I said that' and 'I think I can...' rather than definitively declaring that she did not say that remark and that she can follow the reasonable doubt instructions then it seems to me that she was being less than candid and should have been dismissed. After all, wouldn't you know whether you said something like "I'm going to be a hold out' ?
This coverage would be so much more interesting if you would describe the evidence presented rather than just describing the tensions in the courtroom.Of course, there were tensions. Children were killed. But, the quetion is did the named defendants do it and did the prosecution prove the case. You article implies "yes" to both questions but doesn't provide any information by which we might think for ourselves. Lousy reporting.
"I don't think I said that" was the response? That should have been enough to dismiss her.
In spite of the fact that prosecutions main witness was not credible and eleven jurors found the men guilty indicates that justice was not done in this case. If feel so sorry for the families of the deceased.
I'm confused. If the distinction is between "reasonable doubt" and "absolute moral certainty" isn't that wobbling between convicting or deadlocked? With the acquittals, it seems like they all agreed there was reasonable doubt, or even less proof of guilt than that, except for the hung counts, where 11 jurors thought there was also reasonable doubt or less proof of guilt, but one thought the state had proved its case so that there was no reasonable doubt. Did the holdout want to convict or acquit?
Comments like LIKE and DISLIKE do not register. WHY?
By the comments of the other jurors, the juror who kept saying she didn't believe any of the evidence had a major credibility issue from the start. The jurors ought to be questioned individually and them as a group regarding their deliberations. . . what is being disclosed to the public is a travesty of justice, and it could be due to a 'nut-case' chosen for jury duty.