Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?
Zephorah@discuss.online 1 day agoIt’s straight Jury Nullification within an hour of deliberation unless there are people on the jury who have been bought, by monetary means or otherwise.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cops seem to be OJing it, getting plenty of publicly available evidence tossed because they fucked up processing it
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Ah well I haven’t followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The most loud evidence since the arrest was the backpack with the gun and the manifesto. Except it was known pretty soon that the cops botched the ‘chain of custody’ for the backpack, as some officer had the backpack in her sole possession for an hour before delivering it to the station.
I keep being baffled as to why I don’t see any news about this evidence being thrown away. Maybe it was dismissed from the trial right away, idk.
Zephorah@discuss.online 1 day ago
That’s the idea of jury nullification: guilty, but we don’t care.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Right, and I think we are seeing increasing cases of jury nullification, especially for civil disobedience against ICE. However, the reality is that Lemmy is a bubble. Luigi and his alleged murder are nowhere near as popular among the greater population as he is here. So that’s why I think the chance of a hung jury is higher than nullification. Hung jury can happen if there is just one or a few people who refuse to convict. But jury nullification requires unanimity. There’s bound to be at least a few law & order boomer types on the jury. But only time will tell.