Separated middle aged wife kills her husband along with his young lover in his bedroom.
Good points: Two charges were levied, manslaughter and murder. Stone is advised that the jury may sympathize with the defendant and make a compromise by convicting her for manslaughter and acquitting for murder. Stone prefers to drop the manslaughter charge to not give jury a choice to compromise, but getting conviction on murder charge is a long shot. Before the verdict Stone is tensed because he has not been this "stupid" before. She has a fair chance of being acquitted and go home. A few minutes before the verdict Stone receives a deal that the defendant will do 9 years (which is more than 4 of manslaughter and 25 of murder). Stones takes the deal. Jury is freed as their verdict is not required. Later outside the court one of the jury members is telling the media that 10 minutes more and they were going to give a verdict of guilty. This game play is interesting.
Good points: Two charges were levied, manslaughter and murder. Stone is advised that the jury may sympathize with the defendant and make a compromise by convicting her for manslaughter and acquitting for murder. Stone prefers to drop the manslaughter charge to not give jury a choice to compromise, but getting conviction on murder charge is a long shot. Before the verdict Stone is tensed because he has not been this "stupid" before. She has a fair chance of being acquitted and go home. A few minutes before the verdict Stone receives a deal that the defendant will do 9 years (which is more than 4 of manslaughter and 25 of murder). Stones takes the deal. Jury is freed as their verdict is not required. Later outside the court one of the jury members is telling the media that 10 minutes more and they were going to give a verdict of guilty. This game play is interesting.
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