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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet me guess: a bunch of Paula Deens on this jury?
Looks like a jury straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird - they wouldn't vote to convict even if Gregory Peck himself prosecuted this case.
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Let me guess: a bunch of Paula Deens on this jury? (Original Post)
backscatter712
Jul 2013
OP
I think that's part of the problem - the prosecutor was no Atticus Finch. n/t
backscatter712
Jul 2013
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rocktivity
(44,576 posts)1. Which is why I stopped paying attention the second I heard about it.
How did the prosecution allow that to happen?
rocktivity
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. This post is so right.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)3. Bear in mind that the prosecution had the right to challenge jurors (nt)
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)5. I think that's part of the problem - the prosecutor was no Atticus Finch. n/t
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)4. Well, of course. n/t
RandiFan1290
(6,237 posts)6. Will those women now tell their children
they should submit to strange men in the night? Teach them not to fight back at all in case that strange man has a gun?