A Swain County jury sat patiently listening for seven weeks as a room full of lawyers introduced over 400 exhibits, examined and cross examined numerous witnesses and pored over thousands of emails trying to get to the bottom of a dispute between a developer and property owners.  It was anyone’s guess how the jury would rule. Would they sympathize more with Ami Shinitzky — an elderly, wealthy developer trying to keep control over his multi-million dollar investment property after struggling to get through the recession — or would they side with a group of “outsiders” who spent big money to own pristine land right on the Nantahala River?  After deliberating for about three days, the jury ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor on every issue — and the issues they were presented with weren’t simple.    Read the article……………….