Saturday, May 17, 2014

Valentin Cabajal's case

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/04/08/court-unravels-judges-mistake-in-molesting-case/

 A Los Angeles Countryman was accused for sexually abusing his daughter and stepdaughter. Valentin was convicted back in 2007 for molesting his daughter on three accounts. They added nine accounts to Valentin for molesting and raping his daughter. The question here was whether he raped or molested multiple victims because this indicates how many years Cabajal receives. The judge asks whether Cabajal did or not or information regarding to whether Cabajal sexually abused other victims. According to blog.sfgate.com, reinstates the second jury’s verdict and Carbajal’s full sentence of 83 years to life. According to blog.sfgate.com, "Goodwin Liu threw in some advice for judges in future cases: Don’t ask jurors questions they can’t answer".

Here you have a judge who does not have all the information and the jury itself isn't well educated to answer the judge's question. With our test, this will exemplify these type of jurors and ensure a jury that will make this trial more efficient than the jury they had in this case.

Being convicted to many years life is a huge deal and the jury decides that. We need to ensure a proper jury or we may put a person's life in someone's hands.

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