Chicago Jury with Winfrey Delivers Guilty Verdict

[Nambe]

CHICAGO (Reuters)

Oprah Winfrey and 11 fellow jurors on Wednesday found a 27-year-old Chicago man guilty of murder, and the billionaire TV talk show host described the three-day trial as the saddest experience of her life.

After a trial that would have largely escaped notice except for the presence of Winfrey on the jury, she and her fellow jurors deliberated for more than two hours before finding Dion Coleman guilty of killing Walter Holley, 23, over a counterfeit $50 bill that Coleman passed.

"The bigger story here for me is a man is dead, murdered, supposedly over $50, and that the real war is still going on in the inner-city streets every day. Young black men killing each other. (It was) one of the saddest, saddest experiences I've ever had," Winfrey, flanked by other jurors, told reporters afterward in the lobby of the Cook County courthouse. ...

[SoCalDem]

1. Well..!!! That was Super-fast justice.. Did the guy even HAVE a lawyer??

:shrug:

[PartyPooper]

2. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, and Michael

Jackson are all awaiting their final days in court.

The moral to this story: Those with fame and money win massive airtime and free publicity for their respective cases. Moreover, they have powerful marketing and banking machines working on their behalf.

All the others rest their futures on the whim of the court-appointed defense attorney and the jury of their "peers"....and the "system".

Good luck! Welcome to America!

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