The case ran over several days and we got just a ‘snippet’ of what was presented, whereas, with Stewart’s case, we had our wonderful Silvertails reporter there to report.
For the jury to find Fainu guilty, there must have been a heap more presented that we don’t know about and hasn’t been reported.
If you have never sat on a jury, there will always be differing opinions and always one or two are very strong in same. For the to jury to reach a consensus so quickly, there has to be more to it that hasn’t been reported.
Clearly the jury believed Tony Quach, who claimed he saw Manase stab his friend, whereas, Manase said he didn’t.
That Manase’s legal representatives wanted a jury trial suggests there was doubt a judge only trial would exonerate him, given the evidence, and that a jury trial may cast sufficient reasonable doubt to clear hm.
If Manase didn’t do the deed, as he claims, there will now be immense pressure from his family and community on who did it to admit to it.
