Some of you might have heard about this. A guy back east, maybe New Jersey, kills his girlfriend with some hammer strokes to the head.
Dude gets caught maybe ten years later, I believe through a DNA match. He goes to trial, but the jury wont convict him of murder. They decided it was a lesser offense of manslaughter, and so administered their verdict.
Well, the state had a statute of limitations on manslaughter, and when he was arrested he was beyond that. The jury was not allowed to know about the statute of limitations because the defense said that would have forced them to convict on murder.
Well of course! A hammer repeatedly to the head seems to me to be murder.
Regardless, the jury convicted him, and he then walked away a free man. Ahh the logic. I love our court systems.
