...achieving a higher criminal conviction rate by reducing the threshold to secure a 'guilty' verdict,what phrase wud u replace 'beyond reasonable doubt' with?
//Unfortunately for u the better performance came from the other side....//
I had a split jury but the judge, after much faffing, said he would accept a majority verdict...think he was late for his lunch appointment!
I was looking at losing my liberty, my home, all my possessions, and possibly my life as I was suicidal at the time.
The judge was late for his dinner!!!
But you don't know that, nailit, you've just invented it. Sounds to me like he was just following standard procedure. Unless he leaned on the jury to convict, the problem was elsewhere.