Re: Methinks it's lawyers all the way down on this one...
Two juries, not one. Two trials, with different defense counsel, different prosecutors, different judges, different evidence, different arguments. So they're not directly comparable anyway.
It is certainly possible that one jury found their defendant more sympathetic than the other jury did theirs. It is possible that affected their verdicts. It is possible some or all of age, sex, ethnicity, country of origin, and perceived physical attractiveness played a role, conscious or unconscious, in the calculations of some or all jurors.
It's fine, even probably wise, to be suspicious of these possibilities, human beings being what they are. It's unwise to be certain of them, because there are many confounding factors and because it's generally pretty foolish to indulge in generalizations about people.
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