Jury Finds Roderick Scott Not Guilty

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11 years 5 months ago #27146 by OleCowboy
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Jury Finds Roderick Scott Not Guilty
By: Mike Hedeen


Not guilty: The verdict in the manslaughter trial of Roderick Scott. After more than 19 hours of deliberations over two days, a jury acquitted the Greece man in the shooting death of Christopher Cervini, 17, last April.
"I just want to say thank you to the people who believed in me, who stood by me,” Scott said following the verdict. “I still have my regrets for the Cervini family; it's still an unfortunate situation for them. I am happy that at least this chapter is over."

As deliberations dragged on over two days and the jury asked for testimony to be read back, Scott admits he didn't know how it would all turn out.

"I was nervous of course,” he said. “You never know what direction this whole thing is going to turn, so I have no idea. But it worked out and I feel that justice (was) served today."

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If you are appalled at the current lynch mob mentality, then you are going to want to read this...

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11 years 5 months ago #27149 by jtallen83
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It would seem a very relevant story to the present situation. It happen in New York where there is no "stand your ground" law. Roderick was not touched, only ran at. He was a martial arts expert but still chose to shoot, twice. I can see a few other differences, Cervini was in the act of stealing from a neighbors car with two others that ran, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Eric Holder said nothing, and what nobody wants to talk about, Roderick was Black and Cervini was White. Lets hope the later had nothing to do with the lack of publicity and the absence of racism claims.

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11 years 5 months ago #27150 by Sharkey
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I'm sure the president won't get involved in this one since he said if a white youth had been involved, the outcome would have been different... :blink:

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