Sentencing is 2012 Marine murder case delayed over possible juror misconduct

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/sentencing-is-2012-marine-murder-case-delayed-under-questions-of-juror-misconduct/2014/05/30/cd8b1310-e81f-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html

Sentencing is 2012 Marine murder case delayed over possible juror misconduct

In this article a marine was accused of fatally stabbing another marine in a fight in 2012. In this case there was two superior judges looking over this case. The marine was sentences to 15 years according to the jury, but they pushed back the sentence because jury misconduct. One of the juror was convicted of registered sex offender; the other was the victim of a violent crime. They held another case to retrial, because of the misconduct of jurors. Now the defense Attorney are more aware of backgrounds of jurors to make their decision more accurate. The case is undecided and was suppose to have a retail on July 11.

This case was shows the misconduct of what uninformed jurors can cause to a high profile case. Jurors should be informed and have clean background to avoid bias sentences.

This case relates to what we are trying to point is that jurors should be informed. If we had a test to make sure that jurors are informed of what they are doing, then this misconduct's of jurors would not happen.