The problem with juries...

[lederhosen]

...is that sometimes they're MORONS.

OC Register story (fairly work-safe) and OC Weekly (NSFW): Orange County policeman stalks a female stripper, pulls her over on a secluded strip of highway out of his jurisdiction, blackmails her into sexual acts, and gets acquitted after his defence counsel plays the "she was a slut who seduced him" card.

Never mind the fact that the guy had previously been warned by a sergeant to stay away from the strippers, had used his DMV access to run the plates of nine other female employees of the same strip club shortly before the incident, and that the GPS tracking the location of his patrol car had been mysteriously disconnected just before he set out to tail her outside his jurisdiction and pull her over.

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Comments

[remus-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Don't blame the juries for this. Odds are that the jury didn't see most of the evidence you listed. If the defending attorneys can get evidence withheld for any reason at all, they will.

It's the system that's broken, not the citizens.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Odds are that the jury didn't see most of the evidence you listed.

From the OC Weekly's writeup, it looks as if they did :-(