1. A Williamson County prosecutor feared jurors would acquit a man charged with raping and severely beating a pregnant woman because of their perceptions about the victim. 2. But jurors acquitted both men of murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. 3. Jurors acquitted Arthur of first-degree murder but found him guilty of second-degree murder and two counts of armed robbery. 4. Jurors first acquitted the rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, and his bodyguard, McKinley Lee, of first- and second-degree murder. 5. Jurors acquitted Cauchi of committing a lewd act on the girl and penetration with a foreign object. 6. Jurors acquitted Oakley and Sweeting of murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. 7. Jury nullification dates back to colonial times, when jurors often acquitted patriots charged with political crimes against the British Crown. 8. Police Chief Willie L. Williams said on the day jurors acquitted O.J. Simpson that no further investigation was planned. 9. Prosecutors charged Torres with killing him, but the jurors acquitted him of that charge. 10. The jurors acquitted him of having ordered three slayings and could not agree on four other murder charges. |