# "Peterson jurors may be hung" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702 "2004-11-08T19:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702/21 "2004-11-09T14:48:39Z")
> [@Chimpy](#): > > (Wouldn’t it have to be “hanged” if refering to hanging á la lynching?) Yes, although now that there aren’t so many hangings the non-standard usage is starting to disappear. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702/22 "2004-11-09T14:49:59Z")
> [@Chimpy](#): > > (Wouldn’t it have to be “hanged” if refering to hanging á la lynching?) \ Apparently he was strangled before he was hung. Hanged. Men are hanged, it’s dead meat and things which are hung. Oh, well. I appreciate the information. Well, he wa strangled first. And then he was hung. I find your humour extremely tasteless! \ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702/23 "2004-11-09T19:55:50Z")
> [@AugestWest](#): > > “And they was right!” > > /Blazing Saddles damn you! ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702/24 "2004-11-09T20:48:25Z")
**Braggart!** ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702/25 "2004-11-09T21:22:50Z")
Peterson Jury May Be Hung. Judge to take it up in his chamber. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702/26 "2004-11-09T21:52:00Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Against the fucking judges who permit these 5-month circuses? There is NO WAY that lawyers cannot present their evidence, arguements, etc., and take MORE than a month doing it! These trials ought to be limited…what has been done to these jurors violates the constitution (against “cruel and unusual” punishment). How is it that a scientist can present a new theory or discovery in a couple of hours, and these bozos need MONTHS to present their claims? > As I have said before, a jury trialis NOT a search for the truth. It is more like a multi-act play, where the objective seems to be to bamboozle the audience with as much bull bleep as possible. Now the 12 jurors have to sort out all the crap thats been thrown to them…man, who wants that! I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![\_m\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/f475e1/32.png) [@\_m\_c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_m_c)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702/27 "2004-11-09T23:56:12Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I don’t get it. I believe it’s that facts shouldn’t take five months to persent unless most of it is just BS. As much to do with publicity for the judge, defense, and prosecutor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peterson-jurors-may-be-hung/273702.md?page=1)