It is very unusual for a jury to be out nine days without it being a mistrial. You reach a stage in really long deliberations where it becomes coercive for the minority. |
It remains to me, in 30 years as a prosecutor and defense lawyer, the most polarizing case I've ever seen with jurors. |
It was totally within the discretion of the justice of the peace whether or not to allow the harvesting to be done. |
It's a gambit to deprive us of a witness ... and she would have been a dynamite witness. It's the most outrageous thing I've ever seen. |
It's a horribly sad day as far as we're concerned. People's lives have been incredibly disrupted. |
It's a serious legal issue. It just happens to be being decided around a very unserious person. |
It's fruitless. I'll go on to something else. |
It's just a horribly tragic thing. Their lives are forever changed. There's never going to be enough money to fully compensate them for what happened. |
Judge, I beg, nothing good happens up there, |
Justice rejected our latest response, ... It's reasonable to say that neither side will continue to talk to each other about a resolution. |
Keep the truth from them (the jury) all you want, |
Once you throw a skunk in the jury box it's hard to remove. |
out side-barred [the government] by 200 to one. |
Talking to judges is like talking to God. You don't want to tell God you've predetermined the case. |
That is not a crime, ... God help the man for having pled guilty...but that is not a crime. |