Accepting the outcome of a jury trial is kind of like accepting the outcome of an election.
@mcfate Jury's are gonna jury, lawyer's are gonna lawyer, and politicians are gonna write poorly structured legislation. This wasn't one point of failure on the jury, judge, or prosecutor's part. It was (as w/ so many things) a combination of multiple variables that resulted in an outcome that was honestly... not surprising.
The fact that a black, brown, or anyone other than white defendant would have been locked up after a poorly argued defense by a public defender is another issue entirely.
Okay, contrafactuals are the literal opposite of facts.
@Old_Dave @mcfate
Perhaps I didn't communicate my point - I'm not saying at all that the verdict was incorrect. That's not my place, as I wasn't part of the jury, and wasn't in the courtroom.
What I'm saying is, you can't fault the jury, without knowing what information they were provided (which is very different than what the media spoonfeeds the public), or the lawyer for doing their job, etc.
Hence why I said.... the outcome was not surprising.