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A Courtroom Too Small: Why A Murdered Woman’s Family Is Fighting To Keep A Jury’s Verdict Final
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Davis Vanguard
By Susan Bassi, Fred Johnson and Faith StraderA COURTROOM TOO SMALLThe courtroom couldn’t hold everyone who came.
For a family that believed a jury’s decision was permanent, this looked less like justice than a door that never locks.
No one is required to tell them their verdict has since been renegotiated twice by lawyers who no longer disagree.
For a family told for decades that a jury’s word was final, learning that a new legal standard can reopen everything is its own injury.
A jury’s decision, even one upheld by the state’s highest court, doesn’t mean what it used to.