re: Auburn police have arrested 16 y/o for manslaughter in death of RB and wife

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Exhibit A as to why you should never trust your peers as jurors.

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Not pilling on Tigur cause I usually like her better than most of you but I have been on some Jurys that your statement is 100% correct. I am serious


I was on a Jury in Hall County a few years back where I 17 year old "kid" was in possession of a stolen (stripped to the bone) car and was being tried for a few different things. Possession of stolen property, no license, no insurance, etc. It was a trial that should have taken about 5 mins.

Basically this kid was working for a chop shop. He was driving a vehicle (pretty new Acura) from being stripped to where ever they take them. Got pulled over for swerving and it all went bad from there

I was the foreman on the jury and the very first thing we did was take a vote to see where everyone was before we started discussion. Everyone except one lady voted guilty of all counts. She would not budge and had no rational to her vote other than, "She didnt think he stole it". Which was not even up to us to decide

In the end, she came out and said, "I have a 17 year old son and I would like to think if he did something wrong, there would be atleadt one person on the jury who would give him a second chance". No shite

5 hours later we got to go home