“Do you know that had something to do with the fact they were being tried… by a jury that was all white? That it was tried in a community where a lot of police officers lived?” Murmurs of “Probably…” “Yes…” That’s what happens when you don’t listen to the evidence, when you vote on the basis of some private agenda. Bob Shapiro objected to what he called my “unprofessional conduct.” It is against the canon of ethics for a prosecutor to criticize or comment on a verdict to a potential juror. My comments, he said, were deserving of “severe sanctions.” That was technically true. So I apologized to
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