Nevada Politician Michele Fiore Convicted of Pilfering $70K Earmarked for Cop’s Statue

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>Fiore’s attorney, Michael Sanft, said she plans to appeal the conviction, pointing to the speed with which the verdict was returned by the jury—less than two hours after they withdrew to deliberate. “Typically when people are that fast, they’ve already made up their minds even before the closing arguments so it had to have been some type of testimony that had occurred in the middle of the trial that caused the majority of them to say, oh, that’s all we needed,” he told KLAS-TV.

First, he's making a wild assumption just based on the speed of the verdict, which is an insane level of speculation.  

Secondly, it's an insanely huge leap to say that they had their minds made up when they went into deliberation, then conclude that each juror made a decision of guilt/innocence prior to closing arguments.  

If this is the best this hack lawyer has, the motion to appeal will be denied, as it should.