Please post the paper when it is finished.
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Please post the paper when it is finished.
I am sure you are right.I imagine the prosecutors will try him again.
Murder defendant's lawyers target juror for contempt
Attorneys for Ray Lemes, whose murder trial was derailed when a member of his jury was found to have conducted outside legal research, said Thursday the errant juror should be held accountable — with a fine or a jail term, if necessary.
Lemes had been on trial for five days for the 2007 shooting death of a college student in the street in front of his home, and the jury had been deliberating for almost seven hours when the foreman sent a note to state District Judge Lori Valenzuela stating that one member had independently looked up the legal definitions of murder and manslaughter.
Judges always warn jurors before and during trials that outside research is prohibited. Defense attorney Michael Sawyer asked for a mistrial and Valenzuela granted it. Sawyer said the unidentified juror probably meant well and said he didn't expect that person to face any consequences. [Full story]
Absloutely!TWI
True, I should have been a bit more specific in that I meant a lethal threat but there is no requirement that I know of that a person must prove it existed as long as a person reasonably believed it did.
Don't read too much into a no bill. All a no bill means is that the Grand Jury did not believe there was probable casue to try the person. It in no way implies that they believed he was justified. They MIGHT have thought he was, but we will just never know.And, of course, we have the now-famous Joe Horn casein which he received a 'no bill' from a Grand Jury' for shooting two men who were burgling his neighbor's home.
Cheers! M2
To you too, what's your poison?