No doubt the sentencing of the Palestine Action protesters influenced the outcome here. In that case the jury convicted them of criminal damage and the judge used that to sentence them as terrorists. Pulling a bait and switch like that has consequences. The intended consequence was to intimidate protesters into silence. The actual consequence was to undermine confidence in the legal process. This jury knew that a guilty verdict would give the judge free rein to do the same trick, and they knew what an injustice that would be. The jury did the right thing, given that they were acting within a broken system.