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But, Everyone Likes Cake, Don't They?

Stop me if I told you this one before. It happened a while ago, but I don't think I ever wrote about it.It was the first round of voir dire (jury selection). The courtroom is packed with almost one hundred perspective jurors, filling the audience. We start by addressing the first twelve as a panel. The prosecutor gets to go first. I'm listening, but it's the same old stuff from every case. But then he's making some long, dumb analogy about reasonable doubt being like a recipe. Maybe you have some ingredients of the recipe, but you don't have all of the ingredients... could it still come out as the intended finished product?I knew where he was going with this. The prosecutor didn't have a key piece of evidence. The police had given the allegedly stolen property back to the victim immediately upon my client's arrest...continue to full post

Full post as published by Blonde Justice on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).