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Juries have a lot of latitude. In the first case I worked on, our client who was clearly guilty of escaping from a minimum security prison, was found not guilty because of the circumstances surrounding his escape (he had pretty good reasons including his own safety) and his exemplary behavior after his escape. He still had to go back and finish his sentence though.

In this case, as another poster stated, this guy got convicted because he did everything wrong after the shooting.