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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[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

No, but close. This one was heard in Orange County Superior Court; the Rodney King jury was from LA County, which is next along the coastline from Orange. (The Rodney King trial was actually held just outside LA County, in neighbouring Ventura, I think in the hope of avoiding the sort of riots it ended up causing.)

OC has a reputation for being very conservative by Californian standards, although like most demographic generalisations that's not the full story.

Note that eleven of twelve jurors in this one were male, which may have had something to do with the outcome; similarly, the jury in the King trial was mostly white with no blacks at all.