Comment on Prospective Jurors Are Dismissed in Dozens as Trump’s Trial Begins
downpunxx@fedia.io 2 months ago
What I'm most concerned about is a MAGAT getting on the jury to nullify it. I only takes one, and they know it.
Comment on Prospective Jurors Are Dismissed in Dozens as Trump’s Trial Begins
downpunxx@fedia.io 2 months ago
What I'm most concerned about is a MAGAT getting on the jury to nullify it. I only takes one, and they know it.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah the thing is though that if they can prove they did that on purpose the juror can be tried for perjury for lying during their juror questioning, which is specially crafted to ask “is there any reason at all you will rule against the evidence because of your personal beliefs, yes or no?”
If they answer yes, tossed, if they say no and get on the jury then proceed to do it, they just lied on the stand and are exposed to prosecution, and I’m pretty sure the case can get retried.
jettrscga@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m curious how often that’s happened. It sounds really tricky to prove someone’s motivation in that scenario.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They openly prosecute people for handing out literature on jury nullification around court houses, and they also will consider an entire jury pool spoiled if someone declares their knowledge of jury nullification. Anecdotally there’s an Ask Reddit thread out there where someone recounts a man being hauled off for prosecution because he declared he was going to just vote guilty whatever the evidence said because he wanted to get out to pick his daughter up from school, and that judge read the bastard the riot act frontways and back over it too.