Quote Originally Posted by Double_Adapter View Post
What a load of fucken horseshit! It shows how much you know about our judicial system.

In criminal cases where the punishment is severe, the accused is deemed innocent until proven guilty. So in a jury panel, all 12 jurors must come to a unanimous decision that the accused is guilty 'beyond reasonable doubt'. If 8,9,10 or even 11 out of 12 jurors find him guilty beyond doubt then the debate between jurors continues indefinitely until all 12 jurors reach the same conclusion (and behind closed doors coercion between jurors is a possibility). If the jurors still can't reach a unanimous decision the judge can ask for a new set of jurors, otherwise and a new judge and a new set of jurors is assigned to the trial.
Quote Originally Posted by Abracadabra View Post
Correct and there is a provision where the Judge will accept 11 out of 12 jurors as unanimous in certain circumstances.
Oof, ok, I’ll eat that humble pie. I deserve it for not fact checking before posting.

Still doesn’t change my feelings about the trial. When what really happened cannot be proven beyond a doubt, then you would have to consider the facts surrounding the occurrence. The lead up to the encounter. Those facts do not paint a picture of a rape.

If the facts leading up to the encounter do not mean shit and it’s always going to default to simply what she said happened, well then all I can say is may God help the next generation of men trying to have any sort of sexual relationship in this country.