Comments on: The Bonds jury deliberates into its fourth day today

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:43:14 +0000

>yawn< – damn, forgot to turn of the alarm on my cellphone. What time is it?

By: chrisny3

chrisny3 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:29:19 +0000

Just a guess — the jury has already agreed on “guilty” for the injection count and has moved on to other counts, at least some of which they are hung up on or very slowly making headway on. But as long as there is a guilty verdict on at least one count, it’s a victory for the prosecution.

By: chrisny3

chrisny3 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:25:53 +0000

Insofar as a defendant’s poor behavior is relevant to the case, the prosecution will always try to use it to paint them as an asshole. But to say that that this was the main strategy in the Bond’s trial is really silly. It wasn’t. It was to paint Bonds as a liar first and foremost. The asshole part was a natural outcome of that endeavor.

By: heynerdlinger

heynerdlinger — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:54:13 +0000

I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve served on juries and I agree that it’s more likely that there are a few hold-outs than that they are going back and forth about the different charges.

One thing this seems to prove however, is that the prosecution’s strategy of painting the defendant as an asshole and hope they convict hasn’t exactly panned out. I would have expected them to return a verdict quickly if the jury was predisposed against Bonds on a personal level from the outset.