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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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25 March 2005 - 10:55 am
How would you feel if you did your civic duty by serving on the jury for a high profile case, acquitted the defendant, and then got called "incredibly stupid" by the district attorney? If I were called for jury duty in LA I would frankly tell the court that I was reluctant to serve on a jury for fear of being ridiculed in the press.
Further, the only "incredibly stupid" thing here are the DA's comments. Steve Cooley is quoted as saying "[t]here was a failure in this case. It was not my prosecutor. It was not the work of LAPD. It was the jurors didn't quite get it." Now, I am not a lawyer, but I could have sworn that "the jurors [not] quite get[ting] it" would be a prosecutorial failure. But apparently not.
Posted by on 25 March 2005 at 10:49 AM
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