Oh. So that was their play.
Comment on Well, I guess that settles it
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 day agoThey charged him with terrorism so a regular jury won’t get to make that decision. It will be a federal grand jury of selected stooges, and maybe even a secret court.
Faresh@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
kreskin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Nothing will meaningfully improve” is a good translation of biden/harris’s “nothing will fundamentally change” promise.
DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It also addresses people pretending like knocking down statutes and similar moral victories are meaningful progress twoards addressing real problems.
EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 1 day ago
A federal grand jury isn’t a replacement for a regular federal trial jury. They’re completely different things. A grand jury decides if there is a strong enough case to take the charges to trial, or if they should just be dismissed. When a grand jury isn’t used, the trial judge makes that determination themselves. I agree that the terrorism charge will affect how the trial is conducted, but I don’t know enough on that topic to comment further.
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s true but the way that a federal jury works is very different.
It allows them to choose people from outside of the area in which the crime occurred.
Making it a federal trial jury instead of a state trial jury allows them to charge this single murder against an individual perpetrated by another individual who made no public statement with a much more severe crime than the state laws that he broke would normally allow.
It’s also important to note that making it a federal trial makes it less public as there will be no cameras allowed. They don’t want him tried in the state of New York because that could legally be televised which is a bad look when you’ve already got judicial homicide lined up and the trial is purely performative.
Being that they can choose people from all over and that the process of jury selection is even more opaque at the federal level they can make sure there won’t be any nullification issues.
The way they are treating Luigi whether or not he’s guilty indicates that it’s not relevant whether or not he’s guilty. They legitimately don’t care, this is about sending a message that the poors don’t get to fight back.