From Wall Street Journal:

“Mr. Gupta, who is also a former head of McKinsey & Co., faces up to 20 years in prison on each of the fraud charges and up to five years for the conspiracy charge. But his sentence is likely to be significantly lower under federal guidelines. Sentencing is set for Oct. 18.

The 12-member jury, sitting in a New York federal court just blocks from Wall Street, handed up a quick verdict after a four-week trial. Janeat Brown, a 32-year-old fourth-grade teacher who was juror No. 5, said that in the first few hours of deliberations, 11 of 12 jurors believed Mr. Gupta was guilty.”

Even odder, the only jury member who didn’t accept Gupta’s guilt was someone with financial industry experience.

On Thursday morning,only one juror wasn’t convinced Mr. Gupta was guilty, according to Ms. Brown, the teacher. This person had previous experience in financial services and repeatedly drew upon it to make their case, according to Ms. Brown.

“It was sort of frustrating to know that the evidence was there but personal experience was being brought into it,” she said.

Lordy. The geniuses that one’s fate might depend on. One shudders to think…

First, rude little me is going to find out more about these people’s educational backgrounds and qualifications. Why was a nurse, a youth advocate, and a teacher  the best choice to hear the case? It involved fairly complicated legal notions. I’m not sure I quite grasped all of them. And I spent a couple of years studying Con Law.

How did these people make up their minds so fast when the Rajaratnam deliberation went on for 12 days?

I’ll tell you how. They’d already made it up, thanks to the case being tried in the press and by OccupyWallStreet-type agitprop.

Gupta was hung for his association with Galleon.  That’s why it took so little time.

And, not to be a bitch, but what was the racial composition of the jury.  Were there any brown people on it? As in, South Asians? How many South Asians were there? Or were there only natives (whites and blacks) filled with resentment for the man at McKinsey who took away their jobs? Were they all New Yorkers?

Is this what all Asians are going to face from the juries here? I’d rather have the Indian legal system then, with all its bribes, gridlock, and Jarndyce & Jarndyce complexities.

Much better to grow old in gridlock than be hanged for having a fat wallet and a chiseled profile.