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The Dynamics of a Jury

By Steve Hall

A high visibility Philadelphia death penalty case resulted in a life sentence."  Joseph Slobodzian reports, "Jury foreman explains Mustafa Ali sentence," in today's Philadelphia Inquirer.To Mustafa Ali, convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for shooting and killing two armored-van guards as they worked on a Northeast Philadelphia ATM, the jury's sentence of life in prison instead of death by lethal injection was an act of mercy. The grief-stricken families of slain Loomis guards William Widmaier and Joseph Alullo - former Philadelphia police officers who survived decades patrolling the city's streets only to be gunned down in their postretirement jobs - saw it as an infuriating, unbearable injustice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).