Editing Sam Sheppard (section)

===Verdict===
After twelve weeks of trial, 76 witnesses, and hundreds of exhibits,<ref>{{cite web |title=Sheppard 2000 Trial Defendant's Exhibits |url=https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/plaintiff_exhibits_2000/ |website=The Sam Sheppard Case, 1954-2000 |publisher=Cleveland State University |access-date=February 3, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sheppard 2000 Trial Plaintiff's Exhibits |url=https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/defendant_exhibits_2000/ |website=The Sam Sheppard Case, 1954-2000 |publisher=Cleveland State University |access-date=February 3, 2025}}</ref> the case went to the eight-person civil jury.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Farkas |first1=Karen |title=Sam Sheppard's murder case files and exhibits are now online - and guaranteed to draw interest 60 years after his wife was brutally killed |url=https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2014/07/sam_sheppards_murder_case_file_1.html |access-date=February 3, 2025 |work=Cleveland.com |date=July 2, 2014 |language=en}}</ref> The jury deliberated just three hours on April 12, 2000, before returning a unanimous [[verdict]] that Samuel Reese Sheppard had failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his father had been wrongfully imprisoned.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Slater |first1=Eric |title=Jury Refuses to Exonerate Sam Sheppard in '54 Killing |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-13-mn-19140-story.html |access-date=February 3, 2025 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=April 13, 2000}}</ref>