Jury duty done! Trial finished, so I can talk about it. We found the dude to be stupid but not guilty. A very dull case and we were all not sure why
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it even made its way to court.
Dude was driving through a construction zone on campus. The road had cones that formed 3 lanes. One up the hill, one down and one for construction. He got into the wrong lane. Construction dude trys to stop the car with hand motions. Dude said he said. Construction guy says he didn't. Anyway.. to make a long story short.. dude runs over the foot of the construction guy (very lightly, construction guy doesn't go to the hospital nor checks his foot). Dude also apparently tells him to "get away from my car, or else I will shot you. Don't think I won't" Construction guy is scared. Dude works as a supervisor on campus. Cop comes to look at the car to see if there was a gun. Cop does visual inspection only, doesn't see anything. Next day cops talk to the dude again. This time they physically look through the car and find bullets. Dude confuses that he still has a gun at home that he was required to surrender. Cops find gun at home.
So dude was charged with 3 counts:
1) Making criminal threats
2) Possession of an firearm
3) Threats with a deadly weapon (however that charge is called) (car running over foot)
Anyway... the prosecution didn't do a good job with presenting the evidence. Some of the witness stories for the prosecution were very different. Cop stories were different.
We only found him guilty on the firearm. The defense didn't even fight that charge.
We all agreed that a lot of evidence was missing making the case weak for the prosecution.
So that was that. There are some details missing here so don't judge the case. Oh.. and lawyers are very sneaking and misleading (not of course ST lawers :) so I can see why people dislike lawyers. The prosecutor was twisting the truth during closing arguments. I found that very uncool.
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