Jury Impact in the New York Times

Jury Impact is once again in the news, with Chris St. Hilaire quoted in the Monday edition of The New York Times. Here is an excerpt from The New York Times article: Bonds Jury Hears About Injection Again but Reaches No Verdict

Chris St. Hilaire, the president of Jury Impact, a jury-consulting company based in Costa Mesa, Calif., said the jurors probably asked for Kathy Hoskins’s testimony and a transcript of the Hoskins-Anderson tape because they were debating Bonds’s alleged injections.

“There’s a very strong possibility, based on the type of questions they asked and the information they asked for, that there is some contention among them,” St. Hilaire said. “There could be a couple of people who are holding out because they are strict constitutionalists or maybe there’s a guy who just doesn’t want to convict his favorite ballplayer. Or there could be someone with a strong personality who just refuses to give in.”

St. Hilaire said the evidence might have been enough to make it seem to the jurors that Bonds used steroids and human growth hormone, and was injected by Anderson, but in criminal cases, prosecutors must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

“In a criminal trial, if he probably did it, it’s not good enough,” he said. “That’s a nuance that sometimes escapes the layman.”