1. Mr Justice Stegmann, who sentenced her in May, said that it was possible that another court might reach a different verdict. 2. Another expert reaches a decidedly different verdict. 3. A jury with a different racial makeup certainly would have returned a different verdict. 4. But First Amendment lawyers nationwide rendered a different verdict. 5. Let me hasten to add that I am talking now about whether reasonable jurors could have reached these two different verdicts based on the evidence presented to them. 6. Nothing truly instructive can be learned from pitting the juries and their qualitatively different verdicts against each other. 7. Supporters of the initiative predict the court will hand down a different verdict after California voters speak. 8. That report alone, Judge John Connell ruled in May, could have produced a different verdict. 9. That presents the possibility of different verdicts. 10. The nine-member court could choose to render a different verdict this fall. |