It’s not just twelve. It’s not even just 34. It’s 408 individual decisions, after hearing and observing and considering all the evidence and asking for a repeat on salient points and then coming to a unanimous decision of unanimously guilty.
Even from the guy who at the outset said he got his news from the former guy’s website: thirty-four of those decisions were made by him.
As Doonesbury cartooned re Nixon years ago, GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!
Knowing all that the little mobster’s minions were capable of, those jurors chose to vote what they knew to be true for our children’s children’s children’s sakes as well as ours. They are heroes.
An hour later, my phone rang.
A driver had zoomed through a right-on-red and suddenly found my kid on the hood of their car, waved hi as the pedestrian slid off, and kept on going.
The car coming up behind him was an ambulance. A picture got taken of the guy’s license plate and they called another ambulance and the cops.
The ER said no breaks found, and that is a very very good thing, but it’s going to hurt for awhile.
Meantime, the jury in New York City decided that there would be no breaks in the rule of law no matter what the defendant’s former title was–not on their watch!