Nurse Lucy Letby found guilty of murdering seven babies

The evidence presented was the video. The jury decided that this was enough to convict him. A single juror cannot acquit someone. What exactly would you have had me do? "your honor I dont agree with the other 11 jurors, so ignore them and take my verdict"?

BTW I'm quite clearly stating that I didnt believe the evidence was there, I cannot coerce the other jurors into changing their opinions to match mine, this didnt step them from pressurizing me into changing my vote, right up to the point the judge dropped the unanimity requirement.

This leads to another point ... the judge should not be allowed to reset the goalposts ... I feel that when the sentence is this severe it should be unanimity only ... a majority rule is fine for putting someone away for 10 years and the like but not this ... if there is someone disagreeing then there is a reason to err on the side of caution ... it is clear the court wanted to send her away for life and that was it !! Rightly or wrongly !! Personally I do not think whole life sentences should exist ... with the possible exception of terrorists ...

What I said earlier, and reiterate now, is that the only evidence presented was the video. There was no way anyone could identify anyone, even themselves, from the quality of the video.

The other 11 jurors decided that the police knew what they were doing and wouldnt arrest the wrong guy so convicted him on that basis.

He was not convicted correctly at all in my opinion, hence my issue with jury convictions on circumstantial evidence.

Being at the mercy of a jury of my peers is a terrifying prospect after what I experienced.

So, they didn't convict on the evidence then? You seem very confused.

They convicted on their idea that the Gardai wouldn't arrest someone who wasn't guilty, which means they didn't convict on the evidence.

Yeah it’s quite frightening and mind opening- The academic paper quoted mentions a collection of “personality disorders” as the potential causes- the human condition is a complex thing. Even if a “diagnosis” was ultimately obtained for this nurse, I’d doubt any or at least many, would be any the wiser.

The only thing this study has shown me is that the rate of occurrence is frightening and quite likely, babies have died under circumstances that have been deemed unknown causes but not suspicious where the actual cause is more sinister.

Definitely someone is confused!

I don't know how I can make it any clearer for you.

The jury are in a room on their own. They are free to interpret the evidence how they so wish and come to a conclusion and as such arrive at a verdict.

One of my major failings is that I can't read others minds, so I dont know exactly what their reasoning was to come to their individual verdicts, but I know what they discussed during deliberations and I know what the presented evidence was and I know what the final verdict was.

I understand how juries work.

And I know they have to be persuaded by the evidence presented at trial. You said they just found the person guilty because they believed the gardai wouldnt arrest him, if it wasn't him.

Then you said they were happy with the CCTV footage.

Now, you don't know what they thought at all!

Not surprised you didn't bring it to the attention of the judge 🙄

It was 3 days. The testimony was from the arresting guards, there was no other evidence other than the CCTV.

Again, the argument put forward for the guilty verdict was that, despite the CCTV being next to useless, "the guards know what they are doing" oh and another statement was "they have special tools to clean up the video, so they know it was him".

I would also say that 11 of the jurors were what I would call peers. I was the outlier in my opinion.

I really wish I was making this up. It scared the bejesus out of me.

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trial was 3 days, I was on duty for a few days before being picked.