DA Says Robert Blake Jurors Were Stupid

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- District Attorney Steve Cooley says Robert Blake was "guilty as sin" and the jurors who acquitted him of murder were "incredibly stupid." …

"Quite frankly, based on my review of the evidence, he is as guilty as sin. He is a miserable human being," Cooley said Wednesday.

Blake's attorney, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, said the district attorney's attack on the jurors was inappropriate and "small-minded."

Juror Chuck Safko said: "To hear him say we aren't a smart jury is sour grapes. They didn't have a good case. Their case was built around witnesses who weren't truthful."

(Via AP Entertainment News.)

Update: The jurors want an apology, and the prosecutor continues to blame them for his inability to do his job:

"There was a failure in this case. It was not my prosecutor. It was not the work of LAPD. It was the jurors didn't quite get it," he said, conceding, however, "I could have phrased it differently."

"But bottom line it was the wrong verdict," he said. "Sometimes jurors should be held accountable for their mistakes."

Anyone want to go back and find appeals from this guy's office where he said the jury's verdict has to stand, and juries can't be held accountable for mistakes? What does this held accountable crap mean, anyway? Does he want to prosecute them for not rubber-stamping his case?

What an ass.