GUILTY FL - Doug Benefield, 58, shot and killed by estranged wife, Manatee County, 27 Sept 2020 #2

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Weki said:
I’m also disturbed to learn the possibility that they were 5 to 1 for guilty on the top charge and compromised to Manslaughter. This is based on some random chatter on L&C who claimed his sister was on the jury and passing info to him. I’m inclined to disbelieve this because I can’t imagine 5 people changed their minds because of 1 undecided or not guilty vote. At least I hope not!

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IIRC:
If the jury couldn't come to a unanimous vote wasn't the judge then calling a mistrial?
I heard that the hold out was the man who did agree to the lesser charge so they went with that.
I could have this all wrong.
 
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ch_13 said:
This is the actual comment that the brother of the juror allegedly posted online:

“She just text me this ‘PER SOURCES 5-1 GUILTY WITH MAN STUCK ON NOT GUILTY OR MANSLAUGHTER,'” the comment said.


As the prosecutors point out in the article, why would an actual juror write "per sources"?
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It looks to me like he's just not all that bright, and perhaps she did text him this, exactly as he posted it, but that was all she would have been wanting him to post, was just that sentence in between the quotes. But instead, he added "She just text me this" to it. If this theory is correct, she wanted him to say this info was "PER SOURCES" (keep it purposefully vague), and she definitely DIDN'T want him to say it came from her! So she told him to post exactly this: PER SOURCES 5-1 GUILTY WITH MAN STUCK ON NOT GUILTY OR MANSLAUGHTER.

Which he did. But then he also said "she just text me this"! Which messes everything up! If he'd posted just what she told him to post, it would make sense that she said it was to say "per sources", but since he added that before it, now they're right, it doesn't make sense, cuz why would SHE say "per sources"! But she thought he'd post just what she said, and SHE wouldn't figure in to it at all. So... I don't know if I'm explaining myself well here or not, but it does make perfect sense if you think about that, and it makes me think that the juror did send that to her brother, expecting him to post it publicly, so that's bad on her part. I guess she forgot that she'd need to make sure brother knew not to let on that it came from her! Probably thought nobody would have to be told that.
 
So far from what I just read I say "much ado about nothing"
I'll see if the interviews with the 2 ballerinas claiming that DB had an angry side on Law & Crime are available.
Why didn't they testify for the defense?

www.theguardian.com

Husband allegedly killed by ex-ballerina had ‘angry side’, say fellow ballerinas

Podcast episode talks about conviction of Ashley Benefield, who says she was defending herself from domestic violence
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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