When he returned to the courtroom, bandaged and in a wheelchair, he was acquitted of the three sodomy counts and the weapons charges but, in an apparent compromise verdict, convicted of two counts of sexual abuse specifically, forcibly touching Ayanna Jackson's buttocks.
"It appears that there are some apparent contradictions in this verdict".
Mr. Banki, who had been held without bond since his arrest in January, looked stunned and shook his head in apparent disbelief as the verdict was announced.
On a more basic level, the jury's verdict included apparent contradictions, endorsing the elements of causing a death in the course of a robbery but rejecting the felony murder charges.
Tensions in the wake of the verdict were apparent particularly in Los Angeles, where protesters ran through streets Monday night, breaking windows, attacking people on sidewalks and raiding a Walmart store, while others blocked a major freeway in the San Francisco Bay area in the third night of demonstrations.
When asked about the apparent contradiction after the verdict, Santorum told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on Dec. 11, 1999, "The court proceedings are a personal family matter.
But the apparent anomaly in the verdicts is not among them.
He remains calm, polite and affable; his manner kindly, his reaction to the guilty verdict one of apparent bewilderment.
Her verdict was that the apparent contradictions between relativity theory and Kantian philosophy disappear on closer examination of both doctrines (1921, 71 75).
After the verdict, the Jackson family, the apparent source of the squeal in court, climbed into limousines and left the scene without addressing fans.
