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billms@nixon.icsl.ucla.edu (Bill Mangione-Smith) wrote:

>In article <31C7F3B2.5E43@pacific.telebyte.net> Grizz <glengoed@pacific.telebyte.net> writes:

>   The problem is you had a group of idiots as jurors. The handgun 
>   expert trying to prove that Blade's gun could not fire accidently
>   goofed. The gun went off in his demonstration. The whole news service
>   reported he would probably be acquitted. The fact that he wasn't meant
>   he had a very poor lawyer who didn't point it out. The juror
>   probably changed their mind when they learned the significance of
>   what they saw. The judge realized the jury didn't get the point.

>All of which has nothing to do with what actually happened.  The judge responded
>to a Defense motion entered before the trial began.  The expert witness had
>nothing to do with setting the verdict aside.

>Bill

Actually, the motion was filed after the prosecution presented its
case. The motion basically stated that the prosecution failed to meet
the burden of proof that Brian willfully or negligently shot his
cousin. After several days of legal review by the judge, she agreed.
Since no one else was in the room when the shooting took place, there
was no proof.


Rusty Neff