In a closely watched (not by us), hard fought, opinion generating case, Jorge Pino was acquitted after a two hour deliberation on Monday of the boating manslaughter he was charged with.
Not every accident is a crime, even when tragic, as this one was, where a beautiful, bright, and promising young woman lost her life.
But the tragic episode was an accident, not a crime, and that is what a jury found.
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HR
5 comments:
Congratulations to the lawyers that put their heart and soul into the case
The Captain Retorts:
A whole lot of comments over the past few days on this blog. And not a one of you got it right.
4:22 pm on Tuesday. Guilty they wrote. No doubt.
9:11 pm on Tuesday. Boy did you get it wrong when you typed “Worst defense money could buy”.
4:53 am on Thursday chimed in with “I would have went with the PD”.
4:16 pm on Wednesday. You owe someone $50 for offering that bet on the result of a hung jury. Please donate that money to charity.
6:14 pm on Wednesday wanted to know how Pino could toss aside the misdemeanor plea offer. Guess the defense got that right.
12:42 am on Thursday. That dog did hunt.
2:21 pm on Thursday had it at two hours and guilty. Three years FSP. Boy did you miss big time. Except on the deliberations. Nailed that. Two hours.
5:20 pm on Thursday also predicted a verdict of guilty.
6:33 pm on Thursday would have pled him to the misdemeanor.
7:22 pm on Thursday called Srebnick out for not requesting lessers.
7:29 pm on Thursday made the same criticism of Srebnick.
8:44 am on Friday also agreed that Srebnick should have asked for lessers.
10:02 am on Friday. Did not seem to agree with the Srebnick team foregoing lessers. Guess they got that right.
9:41 am on Saturday Guess he won’t need his connections to get his pardon and to get out of that 30 year prison sentence you had him serving.
6:20 pm on Saturday. Same for you and Pino needing to contact his dear friends to arrange for a pardon. You must have predicted the Thunder to win the NBA this year. Also you had him getting taken into custody as soon as he was found guilty.
7:29 pm on Saturday also had Pino getting a pardon.
4:09 pm on Sunday predicted a hung jury.
8:22 am on Sunday predicted a three hour guilty verdict. And prison.
You would never know that criminal defense lawyers read and comment on this blog.
One. Just one commenter got it right. Every other comment was dead wrong.
Friday. 1:16 pm. Who else but the Trialmaster said “I see a NOT GUILTY”.
The rest of you should be ashamed. You all try cases all day long and none of you had anything positive to say about Pino’s defense team. And you all had a guilty verdict in Pino’s future. Prison time. And a pardon.
A tragedy in every sense of the word. One young woman dead. Another brain damaged for life. A very sad case.
Captain Out …..
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It was still the worst defense money could buy. I thought they did a poor job overall but was saved by fwc.
Wealth has its privileges. Or does it? If his name were Joe Average from Sweetwater, working as a mechanic at Firestone, would he have been charged? I doubt it.
Srebnick’s closing was a masterpiece. It should be mandatory for every lawyer to watch. There are too many lessons to draw from it—including substance, precision, credibility, deliberate, focus, even temperament, poise, empathy, common sense, emotional appeal (for both sides), and the occasional boundary pushing argument (sometimes without objection)—which ultimately contributed to disarming the prosecution and resonating with the jury. Speaking of the jury, evidently this is where the defense won the case by empaneling a mostly male panel.
But this case was about much more, including a shoddy BUI investigation which denied justice to the victims and doomed the case from the start and pressure to overcharge. While the state did the best with the evidence they had and seemed to at times score valid and persuasive points, the delivery of that evidence—namely, the style of the lead prosecutor (e.g., tone, temperament, voice inflection, facial expressions, personal attacks on the defendant, defense lawyers, and defense witnesses alike)—tanked its effectiveness.
In the end, the victims and their families are all that matter. Two different yet equally profound losses that should’ve and could’ve been prevented. Which, if nothing else, should serve a small measure of justice as Pino will undoubtedly be haunted by his actions (and inactions) for the rest of his life.
Wishing Katy a speedy recovery and may Lucy’s memory be a blessing.
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