This black hearted witch threatened the jury
If there isn't a mistrial at this point, America has no justice system.
shareI read that they refused to sequester the jury from media coverage, too. The jury is 100% aware of the dangers that they, their families, the city of Minneapolis, and the country at large will face if any of them return a 'not guilty' vote.
This is not a fair trial, at all.
If the majority of the general public agrees Chauvin should be imprisoned why shouldn't he be imprisoned?
shareMaybe because the majority of the public is ignorant to all the evidence presented in the trial. We don't have access to all that. But, no matter what happens, liberals will riot and loot. It's in their nature.
shareWell first of all, who said it was the "majority of the general public?" It's not. All I pointed out was that the jury, by the Court's refusal to sequester them from media news coverage, has been made acutely aware that a loud, violent, threatening minority of the population has formed a mob and is posted right outside the courthouse, ready to swarm, hurt and even kill jurors (and their families) if the verdict doesn't go the way they want it to. And the same loud, violent minority is also poised to loot, burn, riot, and destroy major cities around the US. That is not a reflection of "the majority of the general public."
Second of all, even if it WAS the majority of the general public, that's not supposed to influence the votes of a jury. The general public hasn't been exposed to all of the evidence in the case. Only those twelve people on the jury have. They are supposed to be able to weigh the evidence on their own and make their decision objectively, without fear of reprisal or revenge.
If you believe that "majority opinion rules," without even the benefit of hearing or knowing all the facts, should be the standard of the US justice system, then you're basically endorsing mob mentality and mob justice over impartiality and the rule of law.
The majority of the population has also not voted, so you therefore do not have any possible way to know what the majority think.
Apart from the communist propaganda channels that convince the low IQ populace that they're in the majority.
Yet the country bases its most important elections off majority vote. My only point is that it's ironic the public is considered competent enough to elect people who have the authority to rule over their lives, however they don't have the ability to vote on sentencing someone from their own community. Kind of stupid
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