Originally Posted by
NoSavingByTheBell
Originally Posted by
Master
I was watching a channel over here where they were choosing the jury for this court case. It was very interesting. Many did not want to be on the jury and were giving their reasons why they should not be chosen.
People these days in America are very reluctant and even squeamish to be chosen to be on a jury and a high profile case. Things get leaked out as the jury deliberates inevitably and people are seriously scared in these high profile cases of somehow being found out or targeted based on their decisions. Even at a local level for a very low level case in 1991, a friend of mine did not want to be chosen to serve on a jury because he said he was afraid. The case involved a pitbull which had attacked his neighbors 5 year old daughter. He was afraid....
Sometimes the stories sound rational on their surface. "It would be a financial hardship to miss work." They have caretaking obligations with ill or aging family members. They have physical handicaps that would interfere with sitting for long periods or they have difficulty hearing.
I would say citizens who are not at all eager to be on juries, just as those who are OVERLY eager to be on juries, may not be the best people to have deciding your case.
Yeah... I myself would probably be reluctant to be chosen for a jury on a case like this. I'd probably be eliminated anyway, for perceived bias.
Having said that, I can't imagine all the hoops the defense will be jumping through in somehow trying to exonerate Chauvin from a murder that was captured by probably half a dozen videos.
I've already seen some of the defense strategies being pulled out of the woodwork.
"Oh... it wasn't Chauvin that killed him. It was the cocktail of drugs Floyd had in his system coupled with his existing medical conditions."
Apparently the "resisting arrest"
excuse strategy isn't gonna fly, what with Floyd being handcuffed behind his back and being dragged out of the patrol car onto the street face down and all that.
I caught enough of the opening statements to watch the defense attorney claim Chauvin had only done what he had been "trained to do."
Oops...
Ehhhh... that one could backfire, dude.
Now you're throwing the whole department under the bus.
Unfortunately, I stand by my predictions. Something, somehow, somewhere... is going to fuck up the proceedings and Chauvin will get off easier than he should... and the racial divide will
widen even further.
Any wider, and not even binoculars are going to help people see the other side.
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