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seamusTX wrote:The case went to the jury yesterday:

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I only want to point out that when a defendant goes to trial for a felony, the case has passed numerous hurdles:

• The police investigated it. A crime of this serious and complicated nature would be investigated pretty thoroughly.
• The DA decided to prefer charges.
• The grand jury agreed that probable cause existed.
• At any number of procedural steps the judge could have dismissed a charge or the entire case.

Can this system go wrong because of incompetence or malice, sure. That's why the jury is the final finder of fact. The jury can find not guilty just because the prosecution's arguments or the evidence don't pass the sniff test.

- Jim