but this was going to be a really big bar for the prosecution to cross over to confirm to this jury that there wasn t any type of reasonable doubt because date rape cases are very, very hard to prove when it comes to that. bob is a former prosecutor, you probably know this all too well. when you hear about the jury of nine men and three women, are you surprised by the split decision? because you had some insight about men jurors being different than women jurors on a female victim. yeah. we have to take all the things into consideration trying a case and i go back to the robert kennedy case i believe in florida with 12 women and those women interestingly came out on a not guilty verdict and saying the victim should not have brought herself in that location, gone on the beach if you recall that case. there s different ways men and women look at the cases and my experience has been that men are actually harder on male defendants than the females are so i found that this was
women as well as anyone can understand being profiled. women know what it s like to be treated in the workplace differently than a man. so i think those kind of words, those $10 words i think are very powerful and really communicate to the jury that, you know, a lot of different things that are important, the prosecutor is trying to get here in making the argument to the jury. lisa, the $10 words event effective? i like the phrase $10 words. you know, i don t know if it s any more effective with women than men? women jurors and men jurors tend to decide things the same way. ultimately it s going to come down to the forensic evidence. i was particularly moved today by the prosecutor s argument opening, for example, that george zimmerman said that trayvon martin had his hands over zimmerman s nose and mouth. we know that zimmerman s nose was bleeding, yet there was no blood entree von martin s fingers nor on his fingernails nor on the cuffs of the two shirts he was wearing. i thoug