Apparently, it’s rare for lawyers to draw objections during their opening statements, but it happened twice for Trump’s team today and the judge sustained both objections.

MSNBC Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XetPGnx0M

    • ifGoingToCrashDont@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      5 months ago

      A single juror can hold up the delivery of a verdict, but they can’t “nullify” it after it’s been delivered.

      • Xhieron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        261·
        5 months ago

        To clarify: In jury nullification the verdict doesn’t get nullified. The law does. The scenario of jury nullification involves a guilty defendant going free due to the juror’s principles–and it’s immaterial whether those principles are founded in reason, truth, morality, sound jurisprudence, or sanity.

        • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Unfortunately so. Like I would do my best to jury nullify any marijuana case. But the history in jury nullification is allowing racists to do lynchings. Repugnant.

        • snooggumsEnglish
          273·
          5 months ago

          Jury nullification is when the entire jury finds someone not guilty when they clearly are. A mistrial or a jury failing to render a verdict is not jury nullification.

          • meco03211@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            This. If it’s a hung jury they aren’t found “not guilty”. They can be retried. If the jury collectively renders a not guilty verdict, they can’t be tried again.

    • athos77@kbin.social
      111·
      5 months ago

      Juror #2 follows trump on truth social. Nullification is very much a danger!

      • dharwin@kbin.social
        3·
        5 months ago

        I think Juror #2 sees Truth Social posts via a mirror on Twitter, and also follows a lot of liberals. It’s not the threat that it seems.

    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      5 months ago

      And then we have to look at the fact that if he is guilty… What the fuck is going to happen. Do we really think that’s going to be the fucking end of him? Or is it just going to be another minor speed bump?

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        If found guilty, you can guarantee he’ll appeal. At this point, he’s probably calculated that he can keep ANY lawsuit going longer than he’ll live.

    • OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      I’ll admit that I usually try to stay away from the obviously biased sources (Rawstory, MSNBC, MeidasTouch, etc) but sometimes I have a bad day and just can’t help myself.