DKSuddeth
Accomplished Advocate
Wait wait wait WAIT a freakin second here. A judge "threw out" part of a verdict by a jury? What the EFF?! What good is the judicial system when a freakin judge over-rules the verdict (or part of the verdict) of a jury?! I, for one, HOPE THERE ARE RIOTS.
the judge can throw out an unjust guilty verdict, though that rarely happens except in circumstances like this. what the judge cannot do is throw out a 'not guilty' verdict and apply his own guilty.