When it was his turn to bring the main course for a Tuesday lunch, he showed up with a pan of thick crab cakes. But the camaraderie quickly cooled when Mosley told the group on their first full day of deliberations that he didn't think he could vote to convict. Mosley knew the system from previous jobs as a jail officer and as a pretrial investigator for the city courts. He considered the evidence. He weighed the testimony.
Good faith is an absolute defense.
Details of the case nagged at him. But jurors heard testimony about only seven. And Mosley was unimpressed by what prosecutors saw as a key to the fraud charges, that Hoffman had little education and few credentials to back his claims. Prosecutors also questioned Hoffman's junior college degree and his work as an Army lab technician, when he earned his high school equivalency diploma. Mosley wasn't swayed.