Verdict wait
I hate waiting. And when the wait for a jury verdict in a double murder case stretches into three days, that doesn't help matters. In two hours, I'll know whether my wait is over or whether I'll be left wondering all weekend.Of course, the wait is much worse for the defendants. And the victims' families. But I wonder if the wait is even worse for the defendants' families. Victims' families won't really get closure in a court trial, and they'll still be left to deal with the fact that their loved ones were brutally slain. The defendants' family members, though, haven't yet gone through the idea of their loved ones being locked away in prison. In many cases, the arrests were a shock, and the subsequent trial was even more of a shock.
While a verdict has the biggest consequences for the defendants, they do have one advantage over everyone else: They know the truth. They know whether they are guilty of the charges against them.
Posted by Layla at 1:07 PM, September 24, 2004
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