“The first jury to hear all of the evidence — including the wrongly suppressed evidence — found Henry McCollum and Leon Brown to be innocent, found them to have been demonstrably and excruciatingly wronged, and has done what the law can do to make it right at this late date,” North Carolina attorney Elliot Abrams said after the trial ended.
Any appearance of fair and impartiality that Judge Steven O’Neill may have exhibited is out the window, according to those siding with comedian Bill Cosby in his retrial.
The panel that will decide Bill Cosby’s fate in his sex assault trial began to take shape Monday with the selection of five jurors, three white men and two white women.
“The issue was: was it an immediate threat or was it speech,” -DA Jackie Lacey
“We’re the most diverse prosecutor’s office in the nation” -District Attorney Jackie Lacey
Tuesday morning, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced that the jury in the case of “Grim Sleeper” recommended 63-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. be sentenced to death for the killings of nine women.
A prosecutor told jurors last week, the stabbing death of a man who was later dismembered in a downtown Los Angeles hotel room was “overkill,” while a defense attorney acknowledged that her client is “responsible” for the killing but disputed allegations that the victim was tortured and robbed.