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fadedrose

(10,044 posts) Mon Jul 15, 2013, 11:06 PM Jul 2013

Hanging Chads and Confusing Jury Instructions

Here we go again. What's next, Republican governors?

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Hanging Chads and Confusing Jury Instructions (Original Post) fadedrose Jul 2013 OP

What makes you believe that the COLGATE4 Jul 2013 #1

The jurer who was interviewed by Anderson Cooper fadedrose Jul 2013 #2

She sounds like a confused person to me, COLGATE4 Jul 2013 #3

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

1. What makes you believe that the

Reply to fadedrose (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 11:57 PM

Jul 2013

jury instructions were 'confusing'?

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)

2. The jurer who was interviewed by Anderson Cooper

Reply to COLGATE4 (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 12:40 AM

Jul 2013

She said they were all crying at one point. They started out with different votes but nothing none of their feelings agreed with the charges..and evidence was hard to find in the stacks of paper...

It will no doubt be repeated overnight and on different programs. Try to watch it.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

3. She sounds like a confused person to me,

Reply to fadedrose (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 09:51 AM

Jul 2013

personally. I'm not sure that blaming her confusion on the jury instructions (which are standard and are used in criminal cases all the time) isn't just an excuse.

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