Good job Bakersfield! Another murderer roaming the street due to a mistrial!! Maybe he can take our tax dollars for a bad arrest like Bruce Sons......by the by, Your title, "Aquited! Of Murder! In Kern County!" is pretty insulting. It insinuates that this isn't something that is the norm; unfortunately. Does anyone really think (if they followed this case) that he didn't do it?

I feel he is innocent......He said he was innocent from the very beginning. You can see Mr. Taylor on the video actually shooting at the crowd. Everyone that is arrested is not guilty. Kern County has a problem with believing that. If Kern County DA's would start abiding by the law we wouldn't continue to have this problem. This just tells me that Vincent Brothers is next to walk. John aka Scooter was paralyzed years ago...he would have been pretty stupid to shoot someone from a wheelchair.

Kern Justice is Crooked Justice....

I trust the jury.  After all, it was those people who heard the evidence.  I'm more concerned about the misconduct that seems to be pretty much of a regular thing from this DA's office.  Somebody over there needs to clean up their act!

Melro, would that we were all so honest.  Most of us base our opinion on guilt or innocence on feelings.  Or what we read in the paper.  Or what other people say.  We have no real clue what evidence they have that they don't share with the public nor do we know what's said in the jury room.

I'm like most everyone else, I form my opinion and that's it.  Tha'ts why I know I would make a terrible juror.

The most accurate comment on this blog so far is comment #2. If the DA's office would not breach constitutional rights, would conduct more thorough investigations as soon as the crime is committed and if they would actually provide concrete evidence & credible witnesses, maybe there would be a higher probability of justice and closure. You cannot however sit back as a mere reader of the newspaper and claim this man is guilty of murder. The video that is plastered all over the media is of Anthony Taylor shooting. Anthony Taylor has been charged and is in prison. The video shows nothing proving John Henry Bryant is a murderer. Like #2 said, everyone that is arrested is not guilty. This man may have been involved with the wrong crowd, but that isn't enough to charge him with murder.
This is the justice system. For a full panel of qualified citizens to base conviction on evidence & proof, not outside opinion. Thank God! Imagine if everyone was tried & convicted based on uneducated public opinion? It'd be an even messier world than it already is.
It is far more important and our civic duty to get the facts before crucifying someone for something they may not have done.

Got rope ...will travel

The evidence against him was strong, but circumstantial.  On the other hand, the "misconduct" by the DA's office was ridiculous.  He said something he shouldn't have, there were objections, and he very clearly corrected himself.  He didn't mean to say it, and it didn't affect the jury in any way.  The DA isn't the bad guy here.  Also, the original trial was quite a bit longer than one day, and so if some of the original witnesses weren't called, it is completely understandable that he was found not guilty. 

This trial was not 1 day either. It was 4!
Of course the DA isn't the bad guy, but he doesn't help his cause by not producing enough stable evidence for 12 people to convict someone of murder.  His one comment that he shouldn't have made in the first trial, wasn't his only mistake.