r/law • u/bendubberley_ • 15h ago

Legal News The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case is admonishing jurors who are refusing to follow his instructions

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u/Zealousideal-Age768 9h ago

That jury deliberated for less than 4 hours...  They were so done with that trial after being sequestered for 265 days.

Can't say I blame them even though I think its reasonable to say they got the verdict wrong.

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u/OctinoxateAndZinc 7h ago

I think its reasonable to say they got the verdict wrong.

understatement lol

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u/drleebot 1h ago

Hell, even O.J. said they got it wrong.

Sorry, "If they got it wrong."

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u/Special_Purpose2903 1m ago

Based on what, many top experts and journalist like Linda Deutsch for the AP or Joseph Bosco "A Problem of evidence", or Donald Freed and Stephen Singulair who cover crime and trials for a living agreed with the jury decision. People who didn't pay attention to the trial and the expert witnesses evidence don't understand why 4 hours was more than enough to persuade any reasonable jury OJ was not guilty. They also forget the grand jury refused to indict him - so the prosecutor moved the case to a different venue and sought an indictment from a judge with no grand jury and even the civil trial wasn't unanimous against OJ.

The main reason why acquitting OJ was reasonable, was the prosecutor gave a literally impossible timeline, that no one believed. Worse off the officers evidence had suggested heavily that the double murder took place within 45 minutes of officer riske arriving on the scene, but OJ had been gone from town by close to 2 hours by that point documented on camera. Jury really had no choice but to acquit.

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u/TotallyRealAccount9 6h ago

They literally have come out and said they knew he was guilty but voted not guilty because he was black and revenge for Rodney king

The literal only reason OJ was a free man was racism

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u/Key_Bike4978 3h ago

It was more revenge not racism. That didn't make the verdict right though. The Rodney King verdict was shocking. 

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u/rpolkcz 1h ago

No, it's racism.

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u/scared_and_afrayed 7h ago

and we're doing it again :)

OJ for women