Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:09 pm
Sure did and do. Prosecution was awful. Did I think it was incorrect? Sure, hard not to. Yet I didn’t break glass windows or loot stores or tell everyone that juries are hopelessly biased. Even juries are prone to mistakes, just like cops.
It’s telling you’re unable to accept a jury’s verdict that doesn’t comport with your preferred Democratic/media narrative, which is really what you’re saying. You’re not in the jurors room and you don’t have the omnipotent presence of being there in person, to see facial change and gauge emotions. Sounds like you’d have been struck from the pool anyway since you’re in fact hopelessly biased.
The only takeaway from your post is perhaps all future juries should preclude Democrats? If you can’t park your bias at the courtroom steps and if you won’t respect a jury’s verdict that goes against your wishes, why would you be considered for any jury?
The prosecution lost the case when the DA decided to hold the trial downtown, as opposed to the area of the city where the crime occurred, as they should have. The prosecutors made some mistakes in their months long presentation, but that is to be expected. They weren’t the ones who decided the venue.
I can’t predict the future. I don’t have an opinion on the NCAA championship game as it hasn’t happened yet.
In general, I respect the legal system, including the jury system, but that doesn’t mean I respect every single jury verdict or every single judge’s decision. Look at
Heller for a perfect example. Scalia didn’t just make a mistake. He purposely perverted the meaning of the second amendment to achieve a result he wanted.
Yes, I’m not in the court room, but I am watching it on TV. I would submit there’s very little difference between what I am seeing and hearing and what the jury is seeing and hearing. No, I won’t be in the jury room deliberating with them, but that doesn’t mean I won’t have a pretty darn informed view of what the verdict should be.
What bias? How is it biased to think this cop is guilty of murder? He kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for something like three minutes after his partner told him he couldn’t get a pulse. He felt Floyd stop breathing and stop moving. Yet he continued to press his knee into his neck. If that’s bias, then, yeah, I’m biased. I’m biased against murder.