"Barbara Moore, the 62-year Texan woman charged with illegally possessing Glenn Gould memorabilia, was found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of stolen property on October 24, reports the Associated Press. The New York jury acquitted her of two felony counts of grand larceny."
Read on and you'll get a sense of why, in this case, a trial by jury is so tricky. To quote "The New York Times writes that other jurors said they were 'reluctant to send a gray-haired woman with a cat and not much money to jail over what appeared to be scribbles that most people would have crumpled up and thrown in the trash.'".
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