In a message dated 11/20/02 12:50:04 PM, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes:
>So why then did the jury take a different view?
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>Brad DeLong
They believed the surviving cop, although his testimony contradicted itself. Juries tend to believe cops if they have no direct experience with how cops lie on the stand. To acquit you'd have to believe the guns were planted and the defense suggested that but was not really able to make a strong enough case for it. There was a lot of veiled Muslim-bashing (to a mostly black mostly Christian jury). There were no other suspects, and the general feeling that 'someone must pay.' Al-Amin didn't take the stand and that didn't help. Still, I thought they were going to acquit. The prosecutor asked for death but the jury wouldn't go for it.
Jenny Brown