"Another quick story. A good friend of mine helped convince the rest of the jury that a gentleman on trial for local robbery was innocent. Friend felt all evidence pointed to that & truly thought he did the right thing pointing out these facts to the rest of the jury during deliberation. The defendant was found not guilty. A couple of weeks later my friend just happened to see the defendant again, not in court, just happenstance. The now freed defendant said, "hey thanks to you guys (meaning jury), I'm a free man. But, I did it (meaning the crime) anyway. Doesn't matter now though...". My friend said that wasn't interested in jury duty any longer." Yeah, Ron, it happens. How do you fix that? I guess I would point a finger back to the lawyers (in general) on that. My impression is that a defense lawyer's first concern is getting their client off, not getting off their innocent clients and getting their "not innocent" clients to do the right thing. Again, Ron, how do you fix that? |