2y ago

The potential blunder in Trump's Manhattan trial

www.rawstory.com

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- Designate part of it as homeless shelter and part of it as refugee camp for human trafficking victims from Texas.
- Make sure the first floor is the "Hillary Clinton abortion center".
- Na just drop the subtlety. Hang a giant sign reading, "Free gay orgies inside." Now that would be hilarious
  
  thanks for the fuck shack
  dirty Mike and the boys
Well this is interesting. Seems Trump's previous attorney now relegated to second rate PR flack Alina Habba checked the wrong box on a form related to the New York trial, so Trump is getting a bench trial instead of a jury.
- Good. Maybe that'll speed things along so they can put the Cheeto chimp in jail.
- Do we feel better about one person deciding Trumps guilt or 12?
  
  "With respect to Trump, an overwhelming majority of the grand jurors recommended that the district attorney seek indictments against him for a litany of offenses related to the call," wrote Lawfare's Anna Bower. "Elsewhere in the report, the jurors also recommend charges against Trump in connection to separate communications with Georgia officials and other efforts to overturn the 2020 election. For each of the charges recommended for Trump, one juror—though perhaps not the same juror—voted against the charges." In all of Trump's trials with a jury, a single hold-out could stop the former president from being ruled guilty and facing a sentence.
  It sounds like one person is already deciding Trump's guilt (or non-guilt, as it were), so I'd rather it be a judge than some random juror.
  
  The judge in this case is absolutely fed up with Trump's bullshit. I think he might be in trouble. He might actually lose his NY properties.
  
  With a jury of 12 people, you could still have 1 person decide Trump's guilt. Say the trial ends and the jury goes to deliberate. 11 people say he's guilty. 1 guy says Not Guilty and refuses to budge no matter what. That one holdout could decide whether or not Trump is found guilty - even if it's because the holdout is a hardcore MAGA fan that got onto the jury.
- fuckinglol
- Non-paywall link? Or copy/paste?

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