Sorry buddy. I will see you soon. I just ran accross this and had to leave a note:

I AM REMINDED WHY I WANT TO GO TO LAW SCHOOL!

That being said, I would like to address some of the comments you have made below.

First, I would appreciate not being referred to as the “juror who swayed the juror”. Although my arguments certainly must have had some influence on the other jurors, there was another that had the same opinions as I from the get go. I volunteered to be the presiding juror because I felt I would do a good job of making sure that everyone had a say and that we focused on what we were asked to rule on, not so that I would have any extra power to influence the ruling.

As far as “ignoring” or “not remembering” your father’s testimony about his pain, that is not true. His pain was discussed at length, and certainly considered as a reason why he pulled away from the officer’s restraint. However, the testimony that we recalled was that his response for pulling away was to write (thereby attempting to take control of the process). If your father would have responded that he pulled away as a reaction to the severe pain that would have been different. Perhaps that was solely the reason for his pulling away and it was lost in the translation, but I couldn’t in good faith use that possibility in the ruling.

Although I did learn a lot about ASL from this trial, it was very new to me. It was pretty clear that there were complications in the translation. I discussed various aspects of this with your father’s civil attorney after the trial in order to help future trials involving deaf individuals. Hopefully our discussion will help. If there was some testimony that wasn’t translated accurately, then that is very unfortunate. However, that possibility could not be taken into consideration when ruling in my opinion. As a jury member, we cannot ask questions, request clarification, or suggest anything as far as the translation is concerned. If there was something lost in the translation I believe that would be the responsibility of his council to clear up during the trial.

Again, I (and I think all of the jurors) sympathize with your father for going through what he went through. What happened outside that care was very unfortunate, but we were not tasked with judging those actions by the officers. What I have heard happened in the jail sounds horrible, but this was unknown to us at that time and I believe should be dealt with separately from your father’s obstruction of legal process charge. My comments on Mischa’s blog have been made because I understand that there are lot of people that care about your father and this situation, and I was hoping to lend insight as to why we ruled the way we did. I am still confident that given the testimony, and the law, that our verdict was correct.

I’d gladly contribute. I think $778 could be raised OVERNIGHT. If Bahl wants to launch a civil suit, it could be costly.

well, again, those witnesses might be friends of police. be aware of a friend of a friend… you know whenever you whisper in the person’s ear, and person whisper to another person.. then that another person whisper to different person, then that different person come to you and whisper back, and the comment you whisper in came out entirely different! So, I do not buy your story.

Again, the interpreters at court seems to be set up by the court, so that the court could get away from the serious legal issue. Not only Bahl, but his hearing daughter complained about the interpreters not clear in two ways. sounds fishy to me.

I also dug a little deeper and spoke to a friend of a friend who was at the court room. There were witnesses that watched and sided with the Police Officers. So you may thing Bahl is nice and not guilty but sounds to me like it points the other way.

As fot no TTY sounds like something to complain about there, but in other stories from news sites it sounded like he was offered it and refused, maybe he did this for the $$$$$$$$, sounds fishy to me.

Sounds like Bahl brought this on himself…….or maybe wanted to bring it on himself!