there are gun people that are unabashedly rooting for the defense because of the implications on their fantasies of someday using their guns
I'm neither a gun nut nor a racist, for what it's worth, I just don't like the idea of sending people to prison for 20 years who very well might be innocent, or at the very least, aren't guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. I will admit however, that I resent prosecutors, who are supposedly officers of the court and advocates of justice, telling jurors to "use your heart." The state's entire case depends upon this jury reaching a compromise verdict or voting out of empathy, and I think that's wrong.