And Peterson was sentenced to death...

[conuly]

Why? Because the evidence was so compelling?

No.

He didn't show enough emotion during the trial.

(Thanks, rpeate)

Okay, youse guys can now talk about how horrible it is, because I'm too cold to do so.

Comments

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Um, have you been following the case at ALL?

I really didn't expect this level of gullibility from you.

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should report us all to The Almighty, so that He may smite us for our criminal stupidity.

After all, that IS what He put you on the Earth for, isn't it?

X-p

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

I guess you obviously know more than the twelve jurors who gave up six months of their lives to sit on this jury, who had to decide the fate of another human being. I guess since you have all the evidence, you can enlighten the rest of us poor saps?

[conuly]

And breathe. Both of you.

Judging from this article, I'm about ready to give up on the "jury of my peers" thing and go for a bench trial next time I'm accused of murder. "Didn't show enough emotion" is not a good reason to go for the death penalty. Okay, I think nothing is, but that's an exceptionally bad reason.

However, moggy kindly pointed me towards other articles which would seem to indicate that CNN is biased. This, of course, is a relief. I'd hate to think that a jury of my peers would judge me by their perceptions of my emotions.

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I have a very hard time not blasting the old vicarious/armchair lynchmob mentality when it crosses my path - and boy does that commenter have a snootfull of it! Wow!

But I'm done now.

Sorry.

::blushes::

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

As I said before, do you know something the jury doesn't?

He is GUILTY. My saying so doesn't make me a "lynch mob". Deal with it.

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

I have said nothing</> about the Peterson case here.

Each and every comment I have made to you has been exclusively for the purpose of mocking your bilious pontifications.

You know nothing about my views about the trail, and you're only making a fool of yourself by trying to misrepresent me.

"Deal with it."

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Well I'm sure they convicted the guy for other reasons too. But the press seems to of homed in on the lack of emotion displayed. At least the press I'm seeing up here on our news feeds to canada that show clips of the trial. I'd have to say though loosing your wife and child would probably make most people feel something or zone out.

I don't display alot of emotion either but in court I've never had it used against me and I have been to court alot.(however it was family court against my ex. Also observing my uncle who was a civil court judge though I wasn't exactly testifying in those cases my uncle sat on.)

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Can't say anything much about the literal press, but the TV newsmedia is a bunch of professional actors doing professional level emotional displays. I'd be biased against them, too (http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/dirtylau.htm).

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

::blink::

::blink::

Yes, that's exactly right: Saddam Hussein personally piloted the plane that felled WTC 2.

How did you know?

::exchanges tinfoil hat for fairy-wings and flits out through window to collect newts' gizzards for dinner::

X-D

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Are you related to him or something? Why do you have such a hard time accepting the judicial process?

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

::sigh::

What makes you think you have a clue whether or not I accept the judicial process?

Is this an example of what you call "evidence"?

Why do you have such a hard time accepting that it is your twisted reasoning that is being ridiculed here?

What makes you think that has anything whatsoever to do with the Peterson trial?

Why are you so terrified of losing a vapid argument that you must resort to compulsively misrepresenting the views of people you know nothing about.

::LMAO::

X-D

[conuly]

How is it gullible to say that the reasons the jurors gave freely for this sentence are wrong?

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Because you are misinterpreting what they said.

"The evidence was circumstantial from the start, but the jurors said a few simple truths stood out. The bodies of Laci Peterson and the couple's unborn son washed up near where Scott Peterson said he had been fishing the day she was reported missing. Peterson told a web of lies to those around him. that death was the right sentence for Peterson because he had betrayed the woman closest to him and the unborn son whose name the couple had already chosen."

Reading, it's fun.

[conuly]

Draco, I'm not getting into another fight with you. You're getting upset over this, far more than I'd expect. Unless you *were* a juror, I don't understand it, but I'm not going to argue with you until you calm down.

Side note, please do *not* type in strong, or whatever that is, because it really fucks up my monitor, no I don't know why.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

I get upset when people who don't have the facts pretend that they know more than those who do; ie, you, and the person replying above.

I don't pretend to know everything, because I was not a juror, but it's obvious to anyone with common sense what happened. He was found guilty because he IS.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

conuly never questioned his verdict. She questioned the penalty. So what is the reason, again, that you're insulting people?

*baffled*

[conuly]

I understand. However, as fugacious pointed out, I didn't bother talking about the verdict at all. I just said that the penalty, as far as the new reports show, was not handed out fairly.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Dude, you seem dumber with every response. Just want you to know.

Also, the whole "he was found guilty because he IS" is not the issue. That is what you seem to not understand, and that lack of understanding makes you look mockably foolish. The issue is not guilt, but rather the decision to kill, and the reasons behind the decision to kill.

[threnody.livejournal.com]

Those might equally be the actions of a scumbag and and idiot, but it doesn't mean he's a *guilty* scumbag and idiot.