If the jury was not able to get a guilty verdict, that sucks, but that is the system working as intended.
it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.
A plea deal would have done nothing except condemn a legally innocent person to a reduced prison sentence. The consequence of such actions just means that a bunch of people admit to crimes they didn't commit because they feel backed into a corner.
Too many people treat a guilty plea as a literal admission of guilt. In reality, 99% of the time it's just trying to secure a lesser sentence. Which is a catastrophe. If they did it, and you can prove it beyond reasonable doubt, they should get the full sentence. If you can't prove it, they shouldn't get any sentence. There shouldn't be any in-between.
WTF are they waiting for? It's been a year. Any justification for redacting or withholding the files was thrown out the window when they publicly released a list of all the victims.
Facebook pays them indirectly all the time by pushing their accounts. Then they use that platform to push products and collect compensation accordingly.
I mean just look at what he's doing with it now. What he's always done with it. He wants literal monuments built to himself. He wants his name on absolutely everything. He wants a legacy.
If the jury was not able to get a guilty verdict, that sucks, but that is the system working as intended.
A plea deal would have done nothing except condemn a legally innocent person to a reduced prison sentence. The consequence of such actions just means that a bunch of people admit to crimes they didn't commit because they feel backed into a corner.