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Juries are stupid. That's the reason that I have a job, albeit because civil juries are even stupider than criminal ones.
My point is that jurors have to decide which version of the truth (prosecution or defense) is closest to what really happened. That's why the City didn't want the civil trial to go to a jury - there was no getting around the fact that the officer's DNA was on her sweater. There's also the unanimity requirement in criminal cases, so all 12 jurors here agreed, at least at some point in the deliberation. I didn't see a mention in the OP about how long they took, but I'll bet that it was more than a day on something like this with this kind of verdict.
Instead of wondering if all sex workers' credibility is questionable on the stand, I think that it's more accurate to wonder about this one's. It seems to me that the defense counsel thought she was his star witness.
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