Some also demanded the head of Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, after the report's damning verdict on nursing standards.
Among people surveyed at random in central London, including subway commuters reading about the Las Vegas incident on the front page of the tabloid The Evening Standard, the verdict was mostly thumbs-up.
Carr's verdict: One of the standard-bearers of the old sense of liberty and the ancient right of Parliament.
The other two possible verdicts require a lower standard of proof – namely on the balance of probabilities.
Although some of the evidence in the Jena case is murky, a cumulative verdict of racial double standards lies beyond reasonable doubt.
"Such appeals by the prosecutor are not unusual, particularly in cases where personal privacy are concerned," said Aristides Hatzis, a professor of law at the University of Athens, attributing the two-week delay between the verdict and the appeal to "standard judicial bureaucracy".
By this standard, a rape verdict depended not on whether the victim consented, but on whether outsiders thought she resisted as hard as humanly possible.
If they really held jurors to this standard, very few verdicts would withstand attack".
"Though this verdict is large by normal standards, it is hard to view this outcome as much of a victory for Apple.
"Though this verdict is large by normal standards, it is hard to view this outcome as much of a victory for Apple," said Brian Love, a Santa Clara University law professor.
A 2011 study from the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative identified Alabama as "the only state in the country where judges can override jury life verdicts without meeting a strict standard".
