Each of us has a natural right - from God - to defend his person, his liberty and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two.
--Frederic Bastiat, The Law
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Granted he's only one of twelve jurors on the case, but this guy says disgraced former McLennan County tax assessor-collector Buddy Skeen got off easy. And it wasn't because of anything the jury could have done, rather it was the DA not going after Skeen hard enough.