Criminal
Jul. 17, 2013
'Not guilty’ was the jurors’ only option
My intention here is not to celebrate the tragic death of a 17-year-old boy. Rather, it is to explain why the jurors were left with no choice given the evidence in this case.
Louis J. Shapiro
Email: LouisJShapiro@Gmail.com
Louis, a former Los Angeles County Public Defender, is a criminal defense attorney and State Bar-certified criminal law specialist out of Century City. He is also a legal analyst, board member of the California Innocence Project and Project For The Innocence at Loyola Law School, CACJ and LACBA'S Criminal Justice Executive Committee.
I write this article with a heavy heart. The intention of the author is not to celebrate the tragic death of a 17-year-old boy. Rather, it is to explain why the jurors were left with no choice given the evidence in this case.
The two most striking anomalies of this case were (1) the lack of support of by the investigating agency for the prosecution and (2) the prosecution asking for the lesser charges rather than the defense.
In any criminal trial, the most vit...
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