Johnson v. State

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge,

Specially Assigned.

Let me just tell you ladies and gentlemen a couple of things that bothered me about what my learned friend has said. She said that when you go back there and you come up with a verdict you can’t change your minds, make sure, make sure. She wants to elevate reasonable doubt more than it is in your minds. Well, let me tell you ladies and gentlemen, if your verdict is not guilty you can’t change it. If it is guilty it is reviewed by the appellate—

So quoth the prosecutor to the jury at the criminal trial of Michael Jay Johnson in the Circuit Court…