The Verdict

After 3-4 days of deliberating, the jury rendered their verdict: guilty on all counts, but insane. Sentencing hearing next month on the 14th.

Also, going back to testifying last week, I was supposed to testify in the morning, but a juror failed to show, prompting the judge to go into recess until 1:30 in the afternoon. A few other members of the group were also forced to have to wait until after lunch to testify, so I suggested we have a long lunch and get caught up. One of the first things one person said was to acknowledge how scared he'd been to be at the park after what happened. I give him credit for being able to acknowledge this. But now I wonder if it would have been the right thing to share what I knew my attacker - for me, it gave me the impetus to depersonalize what happened and to see it as something that was completely random and also unlikely to occur again.

More on this later.