Neutraligon wrote:Shofercia wrote:
That's very true. The Republican running against Maxine Waters in a heavily Democratic district where she was going to win no matter what, raised $10.5 million. That means that there are enough people to pay $10.5 million for the sole purpose of trolling the shit out of Maxine Waters.
This is exactly why I want Chauvin convicted by an unbiased jury of his peers, so that the Justice System can show that it works. Right now a lot of minorities think that it's broken, a lot of right wingers think that it's broken, and vigilantism is on the rise. That's the scary part and that's why a part of me wants a mistrial followed by a trial with an untainted, sequestered jury, with Maxine Waters shutting the fuck up, at least about the case, with cell phones and other photo devices banned from the courtroom, except for official broadcast news, and with the jury behind a one way mirror.
Problem is that at this point the trial had happened and most people have heard the evidence from both sides which means that most people who might have been neutral before are not so now. Honestly I am not sure how you go from here.
Most, but not all. Even if there are only 2% of people who haven't heard about it, or only heard about it passing, that'd be enough for an impartial jury pool where 12 jurors can be selected.
The Nihilistic view wrote:Ethel mermania wrote:It's not about knowing what happened, foreknowledge doesn't equal bias. the juror went our and protested the event, and lied about it on the juror questionnaire. Big difference
Wanting fair treatment for all people isn't a bias against the defendant either. You wouldn't have a jury if that was the requirement.
Jurors are expected to be brutally honest in their questionnaires, and answer all questions fully, to the very best of their ability. Playing wannabe attorney on your juror questionnaire might be grounds for dismissal. He was asked, point blank, "did you go to marches in Minneapolis?" and he was like "I went to the exact same one in DC, so I'm going to hide that, since you said Minneapolis, not DC, teehee," and then flat out lied in his response to the second question claiming that a rally about abuse of police force wasn't about police force, but rather it was about equality, as if a rally cannot be about both, police force and equality.