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Another Kennedy beats the rap as jurors swoon
« on: March 01, 2014, 03:07:39 pm »
http://nypost.com/2014/03/01/kerry-kennedy-cleared-of-drugged-driving-as-jurors-swoon/

Another Kennedy beats the rap as jurors swoon

By Andrea Peyser

March 1, 2014 | 12:45am

Justice? What a joke.

Starstruck jurors went blind, deaf and dumb in the presence of American royalty, quickly finding the fabulous, fatherless, bulletproof Kerry Kennedy not guilty of drugged driving Friday.

“She seemed like a nice person,” a juror who’s been drinking too much Kennedy Kool-Aid said after acquitting the daughter of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and niece of slain President John F. Kennedy of a misdemeanor charge of driving while ability impaired by drugs, in this case the sleeping medication Ambien.

“She does a lot of good in the world,” gushed the juror, a retiree who asked not to be identified by name or gender.

The panelist was impressed with Kerry’s globe-trotting work saving child slaves and aiding persecuted African gays as president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights — an outfit whose very name, repeated over and over in court by her lawyers and character witnesses, served as a reminder to jurors that they weren’t messing with some ordinary dame.

“We really tried hard just to focus on the evidence. Everyone said we can’t be biased either way,” recalled the juror, who apparently failed to ignore Kerry’s pedigree. The jury ate up the defense argument that Kerry took Ambien by mistake before driving.

“She was answering the questions. She did a fine job. There was nothing there that she was saying, ‘Pity me, I’m a Kennedy,’ ” recalled another juror, Mark Saunders.

Regarding Kerry’s celebrity status, juror David Luttkus said, “It did come up, naturally, but we were quick to disregard that that was a factor.”

During four days of testimony in Westchester County state Supreme Court, the full-blown circus turned into a farce as Kerry, 54, warped the case into a pity party. She shamelessly played the assassination card, testifying on Wednesday that her “Daddy” “was killed when I was 8.’’

The four-man, two-woman jury deliberated just 30 minutes Friday and about 45 Thursday before coming to what seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

That’s little more than the time it took for the spoiled, entitled Kerry, on the morning of July 13, 2012, to dress up in gym duds, pack a change of clothes and Prada shoes into a bag, make a cup of cappuccino, munch on carrots, then drive her silver 2008 Lexus SUV away from her house in the tony town of Bedford before smashing into a tractor-trailer on Interstate 684, blowing a tire.

Kerry maintained that, on the morning of the crash, she ingested Ambien — which she’d taken on and off for a decade — by mistake, thinking she’d taken her medication she used to treat an underactive thyroid.

An ordinary Jane would have pleaded guilty and begged for mercy. Maybe she’d get locked up in jail for a year, the maximum penalty Kerry faced. Any other woman would certainly lose her license for a while and be deprived of the right to terrorize ordinary citizens on the road.

Not Kerry.

On Friday at around 10:15 a.m., the jury forewoman recited two words that Kerry was waiting to hear — “not guilty.’’ Kerry unleashed a toothy grin and gave a bear hug to her lawyer, William Aronwald. She weirdly started clapping her hands after acting Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary dismissed jurors, an apparent ovation for herself. Friends and family, including her 85-year-old mom, Ethel, and daughter Cara Kennedy Cuomo, joined in the applause.
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Re: Another Kennedy beats the rap as jurors swoon
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2014, 03:35:05 pm »
Then the prosecutors did a really sh*tty job of picking the jury; too bad, so sad.  They ought to be fired.

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Re: Another Kennedy beats the rap as jurors swoon
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2014, 04:02:23 pm »
Oh please.  Who among us hasn't reached for the bottle of Advil and mistakenly taken a sleeping pill instead, causing us to go out and plow into oncoming traffic on the interstate?   :shrug:

Give the girl a break.