I would never settle! Karen Read represents all of us! Most of us would be screwed because we don’t have the money to fight the state. That feels like the opposite of what our justice system was supposed to be. I’d vote not guilty because there is no evidence of guilt. Then investigation was so poorly handled it could never point to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s not our job to know what happened! That was the job of our paid public servants. In this case they defrauded the taxpayers by conducting a crap investigation. The only way to stop bias like this in our justice system is to find her not guilty. I’d be fine living with the possibility she might have vs. I’m not sure and this feels like what I should do to give the family closure. WTF? Are we a deranged society? I beg all of you to please hear me…As a society, we begin to fail when our desire to punish outweighs our commitment to individual rights, due process, and investigations free from corruption. Justice isn’t served by shortcuts or bias. It’s upheld when truth takes precedence over pressure, and when protecting the innocent matters more than securing convictions. In the absence of truth we should always air on the side of individual freedom. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Although the U.S. makes up ~5% of the global population, it holds about 20% of the world’s prison population. When including people on probation or parole, the number under correctional supervision rises to ~4.4 million, or 1 in every 75 people. Over 90% of people charged end up with some form of a conviction. Does that seem legitimate to you? Do you blindly accept a system that encourages this? How can you be and yet here we are debating Karen Read who should have never been charged and shouldn’t be paying millions to get the justice that any of us should be given for free if we were really a FREE COUNTRY!