Mushmouth
11-25-2018, 10:04 AM
The case seemed a slam-dunk: Prosecutors had a videotaped confession and DNA evidence. Yes, the defense did its job by questioning all that. But the judge let the jurors get away without doing their job as soon as the foreman declared them “split.”
https://nypost.com/2018/11/22/why-did-justice-aloise-rush-to-end-the-vetrano-trial/
Queens Supreme Court Judge Michael Aloise excused the 12 jurors late Tuesday after they sent their first and only note declaring a deadlock following just 13 hours of deliberations.
The panel had deliberated just 13 hours — one hour on Monday and 12 on Tuesday — after hearing a mountain of evidence against 22-year-old suspect Chanel Lewis, who is charged with sexually assaulting and strangling Vetrano in 2016.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/21/veteran-lawyers-cant-believe-karina-vetrano-case-ended-in-mistrial/
https://nypost.com/2018/11/22/why-did-justice-aloise-rush-to-end-the-vetrano-trial/
Queens Supreme Court Judge Michael Aloise excused the 12 jurors late Tuesday after they sent their first and only note declaring a deadlock following just 13 hours of deliberations.
The panel had deliberated just 13 hours — one hour on Monday and 12 on Tuesday — after hearing a mountain of evidence against 22-year-old suspect Chanel Lewis, who is charged with sexually assaulting and strangling Vetrano in 2016.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/21/veteran-lawyers-cant-believe-karina-vetrano-case-ended-in-mistrial/