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Earlier this month:
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/...reservations-after-verdict-in-rape-trial.html
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/news/2016/07/02/Lawyer-seeks-rape-case-retrial.html
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/...reservations-after-verdict-in-rape-trial.html
The justice system failed Demetrius Richardson, according to three jurors who voted last week to convict the 26-year-old Elyria man of having sex with a 12-year-old girl.
“I think the law was upheld,” juror Glenda Madden of North Ridgeville said. “Was justice served? No, I don’t think so”...
But jurors reached by The Chronicle-Telegram this week said they are unhappy with the outcome of the case in part because of what they learned about the girl’s history of having sex with older men after the trial ended...
Jurors also said they were horrified to learn that the minimum sentence Richardson can receive for the rape charge of which he was found guilty is 10 years to life in prison... Sapola said he and other jurors thought Richardson would receive probation in the case, not a potential life prison sentence.
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/news/2016/07/02/Lawyer-seeks-rape-case-retrial.html
Demetrius Richardson’s lawyer on Friday formally asked a county judge to grant her client a new trial for having sex with a 12-year-old girl last year...
Juror Nikki Nemcek has said publicly that she violated a court order that is supposed to prevent jurors from doing their own research into the law and facts of the cases they are hearing.
Nemcek wrote in a blog post and in an affidavit she signed Thursday for Downs that she looked up rape and age of consent laws in Ohio online while the jury was taking an overnight break in their deliberations.