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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Columbus Mock Trial Results

Period 1: First number (guilty votes), second number (not guilty) and third (undecided)

  • Genocide: Unanimously not guilty: 0-9-0
  • Kidnapping: Mistrial 4-4-1
  • Slavery: Mistrial* 7-2-0
  • Murder: Mistrial 7-2-0
  • Rape: Unanimously Guilty 8-0***
Period 3:

  • Genocide: Mistrial 6-7-1
  • Rape: Mistrial 6-8-0
  • Slavery: Unanimously Guilty*** 13-0
  • Murder: Mistrial 11-3-0
Period 4: Columbus faces a lot of jail time! 
  • Murder: Unanimously Guilty 8-0-0
  • Rape: Unanimously NOT Guilty: 0-8-0
  • Torture: Unanimously Guilty 8-0-0
  • Invasion (Theft): 8-0-0
  • Slavery: 8-0-0

Period 6:


*Mistrial means that Columbus would not face criminal time, but the prosecution would be allowed to retry the charge/case if they wanted.
*** One person was very confused, but given how the rest of the jury viewed the evidence, then I remove their vote from consideration

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