Do You Think Cosby Should Go to Prison?

applecruncher said:
Here's some information.
Retrial scheduled for Nov 6.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/07/06/us/bill-cosby-retrial-date/index.html
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Thanks. From what the one juror said, it looks like part of the problem was the wording of the jury instructions, which, at least where I live, are in the statutes and the basic wording and explanations cannot be changed. So I'd wonder if the next jury will have the same problems. The legal concepts of "reasonable doubt" and "unreasonable doubt" are tough ones.
 
Butterfly said:
Thanks. From what the one juror said, it looks like part of the problem was the wording of the jury instructions, which, at least where I live, are in the statutes and the basic wording and explanations cannot be changed. So I'd wonder if the next jury will have the same problems. The legal concepts of "reasonable doubt" and "unreasonable doubt" are tough ones.
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Plus, on the part of reasonable doubt, there's the possibility jurors made up their minds before a trial even started.
Kinda like many posts I've seen here- some would've figuratively fried the guy without hearing anything further.
 
JaniceM said:
Plus, on the part of reasonable doubt, there's the possibility jurors made up their minds before a trial even started.
Kinda like many posts I've seen here- some would've figuratively fried the guy without hearing anything further.
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Well, juries are like any other group of humans; they do go into things with preconceived ideas, personal prejudices (not referring to racial type prejudices here, but I'm sure those happen, too, but prejudices about who to believe, why people behave as they do, etc.) that are buried so deeply that the person may not even be consciously aware of the fact they are there, but they can color our thinking. IMHO it is impossible to get a really impartial jury because we all have our personal baggage we pick up along the way.

For instance, when I was on a grand jury, we had one member who deeply believed that if the police and the DA think you did it, you probably did it, which of course ain't necessarily so.
 
I don't think age has anything to do with it, and if he's found guilty, then YES to prison!!!

Cosby is a man who was admired and loved world wide, now we have such contempt. Same with OJ, and I think that's the biggest punishment of all for these two narcissists'. They have gone from unbelievable adulation to being thought of as disgusting, and rightly deserved!
 
Trump is a self admitted sexual predator that grabs women by their *******s. We need consistency in punishment.
 
I'd like to see him serve time too but I feel about him as I did about OJ. In prison he would have been treated as a hero but not so with the everyday people he must deal with for the rest of his life. Very few decent people will want to have anything to do with him. Loss of respect and admiration is painful to anyone but especially so for a public figure
 

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