Scary how dominant the #ibelieveher hashtag is with female voices and the similar dominace the #idontbelieveher is with male ones. Makes you think orchestrating the male heavy jury was the best thing their lawyers did regardless of the facts of the case. If the balance was weighted similarly to a female heavy jury I think we'd be seeing a different verdict.
I was once on a trial that became the biggest libel in Irish history at the time. A female pr consultant sued a newspaper for allegedly making inferences she was having an affair with a politician. Given the evidence we saw and what we were told to focus on by the judge I didn't believe there was enough to give a guilty verdict. Neither did the three other men on the jury. All 8 women on the jury did though. Two lads changed their vote late at a whim to give the majority of 10 needed because they didn't want to come back the next day. But I've no doubt the uneven gender divide won that case for her.
I was once on a trial that became the biggest libel in Irish history at the time. A female pr consultant sued a newspaper for allegedly making inferences she was having an affair with a politician. Given the evidence we saw and what we were told to focus on by the judge I didn't believe there was enough to give a guilty verdict. Neither did the three other men on the jury. All 8 women on the jury did though. Two lads changed their vote late at a whim to give the majority of 10 needed because they didn't want to come back the next day. But I've no doubt the uneven gender divide won that case for her.
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