Good For The Judge

From the Columbus Dispatch:  LaShawn Chapman voted “not guilty” on Thursday along with her fellow Franklin County Municipal Court jurors in a misdemeanor assault case.
Then Chapman went home and cried, not because of the stress of deliberation, but because of what Judge Amy Salerno said to the jury after the verdict.
“(The judge) said, ‘Ninety-nine percent of the time, the jury is correct,'" according to Chapman. "'Now it’s 98 percent. You got this wrong.'
“She berated us,” Chapman, 39, said of the judge. “It was just nasty.”
Four of the eight jurors who decided the case have complained to Administrative Judge James E. Green about how Salerno spoke to them afterward, Green said yesterday.
Salerno criticized the jurors in front of other people in the courtroom, according to the complaints. She also suggested that there would be another opportunity to convict the defendant because he was charged in another case in front of her, according to the jurors.
“Based on what they said to me, I am disturbed at the behavior,” Green said.  http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/08/07/judge-amy-salerno-tells-jurors-they-got-verdict-wrong.html
Based on the whiny and crybaby attitude of Chapman and the others, I think the jury got it wrong and I think the judge was right in yelling at the jury.  Hell, there was even a videotape of the thug hitting the other guy.  There are idiot juries all around the country and many times, it is the stupid people who get on the juries- mostly at the request of defense attorneys.   It looks like this is the case in this trial.