The battle of the jurors has now come to the fore around town as one juror, Lauretta Codrington, spoke with media last night and said basically while she could not find Taylor innocent, she could just not find him guilty. YCD understands WHAT Codrington was saying although one can NEVER be found innocent in any court proceeding, simply 'not guilty'.
Today another juror, EMU student Mary Bruhnsen came forward in response to Codrington and said she had no problems finding Taylor guilty of first degree murder, along with five other jurors. In an interview with the Ann Arbor News (who really has been doing an excellent job covering this case), Bruhnsen said that the video evidence of Orange Taylor III leaving Laura Dickinson's dorm and the fact he had her keys and locked up after himself "It all connected the dots for me and really just wrapped it up, It couldn't have been anybody else, and she didn't die of a heart condition."
Bruhnsen said the jury had difficulty agreeing on which charge to find him guilty of if any at all. She said several jurors discussed the manslaughter verdict but never committed to it. She went on to say the jurors took several votes with varying degrees of agreement.
On a postitive note Bruhnsen said race never played any part in the jury room. "I thought everyone was pretty open-minded," she said. "Nobody brought any baggage into it."
YCD would like to applaud the jury for not letting race become a factor in this case where in other parts of the country it might well have. You can agree or disagree with the outcome of this trial but it is apparent the jurors took their charge very seriously and were as fair as the day is long. Hats off to them for looking past an obvious roadblock to the justice system.
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Well said.
Jury deliberations are very difficult. You throw 12 people in a room and try to get along when there are differences, often strong ones, of opinion. I sat on a 6 day jury years ago and it is an experience I will never forget.
I do find it very difficult to refute the physical evidence. In my mind, him on tape talking about being in the room and the DNA make this a no-brainer for me. Very disappointing.
I live in New Orleans. Black jurors here outright refuse to convict the black criminals because they know that they will be branded for life. It's a black culture problem and will never be solved. Buy a gun, lock your doors, and shoot to kill. It's our only hope.
Anonymous, you are an idiot of the lowest form, as well as a coward for not leaving your name. Are you telling us that there are no blacks in jail in New Orleans? Yes you are right. Buy a gun, lock your doors, and shoot to kill; yourself! David
He's being railroaded, I tell ya!
Sure, he sprayed hot spooge onto a dead girl's corpse.
How do we know it wasn't an accident?
Sure, so his shirt fibers were on her bed and her body.
How do we know that he didn't LOAN his shirt to the actual killer, hours before?
Sure, he had her keys.
How do we know that someone didn't *plant* those keys on him?
Sure, her door was locked.
How do we know that she didn't lock the door right after she died of a heart attack? Ever heard of rigor mortis spasms? Its not statistically impossible you know!
Ok, so maybe all the evidence *does* point to him.
But how do we know *he* is really himself? Prove to me that he isn't an alien who has snatched the body of Orange Taylor III! I bet you can't!
So maybe you can prove that it isn't an alien somehow.
But prove to me that the universe exists at all! You can't! Maybe we all live in a collective dream! So there! NOT GUILTY!
(don't you want me to be on your jury, if you're ever a defendant some day?)
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