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Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $30.5 million to family of slain teen (www.seattletimes.com)

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"At one point during the trial, jurors were shown video of passengers in the vehicle carrying Mays trying to flag down a city ambulance that drove away from them. "

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Civil trials in Washington require only 10 of 12 jurors to agree.

Holy crap, that makes so much more sense! I know it's not the point of the article, but I was floored. Why do most of our trials seem to require a unanimous verdict!? Try to get any small group of people to agree on something and there's always a contrarian...