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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 05:17 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: amster69 on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 05:44 PM EDT |
The thing I find most confusing is that IIRC a civil case like this only
requires a jury of six. If so, then doesn't increasing that number to twelve
(now ten) greatly increase the odds of that jury failing to decide unanimously?
Bob
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 05:45 PM EDT |
Yesterday, the jury asked if they were allowed to consider
Dr. Parr's testimony as fact (I guess as opposed to just his
opinion). While the judge danced a bit, the answer was
"yes."
Today, they wanted to hear that testimony read back. The
testimony that they're allowed to consider as fact.
Here's my read of the tea leaves:
The jury has resolved the '104 patent questions (which were
first on the form). They moved on to the '520 patent.
There's one juror who's holding out for Oracle on the '520
patent because that juror doesn't believe Dr. Carr, and
raised the question whether they were even allowed to
believe it. Hence yesterday's question. Now that they're
established they're allowed to believe it, they wanted it
read back again, hopefully to convince the holdout juror.
It didn't work, sort of - the holdout juror still has some
doubts, but doesn't think they can convince anyone else of
their position. Asking if it's OK to not be unanimous is
basically asking to surrender - "Look, I'm willing to accept
your view winning. Can we let you win without me voting for
it?"
Assuming the wild speculation above is accurate, I think
that bodes well for a verdict this time. If the holdout
will accept a contrary verdict, they'll eventually crack and
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 08:41 PM EDT |
They will now go home and spend the whole weekend thinking about
what Parr said, and won't remember a thing Michelle said.
Eat your heart out, Oracle.
Gringo
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