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Hung jury is most likely outcome

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Posted By: Big Bopper, 5/29/2024 10:57:01 PM

The travesty of a political show-trial against Donald Trump has finally been submitted to the jury of five men, five women and two lawyers in ultra-blue Manhattan. A conviction takes unanimity. So does an acquittal. A hung jury takes only at least one dissenter. Expect them to decide that they can’t decide. It’ll be a hung jury. Stage-rants produced by White House staff-kids (remember Biden’s weird State of the Union shout-fest?) and delivered by eighty-year-old Robert DeNiro outside the courtroom won’t change that.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 5/29/2024 11:12:52 PM (No. 1727520)
Seems likely to me, too.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Safari Man 5/29/2024 11:16:21 PM (No. 1727521)
New York jury will want Trump hung.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: NYbob 5/29/2024 11:21:20 PM (No. 1727524)
I would be amazed if any NYC rat voter could ever admit this was lawfare and acquit the Orange man bad. They just don't have it in them, even though a ' justice ' system this corrupt could ruin each one of them on a whim. It would be nice to be wrong, but this is NYC and a full NOT guilty acquittal is not likely with this group and this ' court '.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: texaspast 5/29/2024 11:53:47 PM (No. 1727536)
Actually, in my opinion, a hung jury would be worse than a 'guilty' verdict. With a hung jury, the prosecutor could elect to re-try, starting the whole process over from the beginning. Far from being a good thing for Trump, that would tie him up in the courtroom for at least another two-three months, and the jerkwad of a judge would continue the gag order on Trump!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: thekidsmom66 5/30/2024 12:05:06 AM (No. 1727540)
FTA: 5 men, 5 women, and 2 lawyers. Are the lawyers neither male nor female???
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Reply 6 - Posted by: NotaBene 5/30/2024 12:12:27 AM (No. 1727542)
We wish.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 5/30/2024 12:46:34 AM (No. 1727551)
Nope, Bragg wants 45 politically drawn hung disemboweled and quartered. He wants 45's head on display for future politicians to see.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 5/30/2024 1:06:57 AM (No. 1727553)
"The left always overreaches. They can’t help themselves. At the core, they’re totalitarians. They don’t want to achieve policy goals. They simply want to impose their will on the rest of us." The Left/Biden doesn't want justice. They/Biden want a conviction.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Omen55 5/30/2024 2:04:37 AM (No. 1727557)
Those 2 lawyers work for law firms. If they vote to acquit their careers there would be over.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mifla 5/30/2024 3:12:42 AM (No. 1727568)
Only if one or more jurors have the backbone to withstand all of the pressure that will be brought down on them during and after the trial. The members of the OJ jury who thought he was guilty eventually caved to the others on the jury. We shall see.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Mcscow sailor 5/30/2024 7:45:27 AM (No. 1727649)
The jury instructions will produce a de facto hung jury, even if a guilty vote is made. The predicate crime (if any) has to be established by all twelve. The judge said, in essence, make it up. You don’t have to agree on the predicate crime. Send him some bananas. He is saying we know you done wrong, we don’t know what, and the jury will come back with a verdict that you done wrong, somewhere, somehow…and then we get to hang you.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: lynngirl122 5/30/2024 8:54:33 AM (No. 1727686)
The jurors do not have to reveal publicly how they voted so why are we assuming the two lawyers' careers would be over.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: franq 5/30/2024 9:34:48 AM (No. 1727712)
All rules, method, and decorum got thrown out the window when this "trial" began. This layman wonders if what #11 states is even legal. But legal or not, it may affect the outcome. Look at how many rules are violated in a typical election. Polls open late, newscasters calling states before all results are in, mules transporting fake ballots. A rule to a leftist means nothing. This is also by definition.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: rfr46 5/30/2024 9:45:31 AM (No. 1727715)
Any juror who votes to acquit will be outed by one or more other jurors, and his or her life will be ruined.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: KTWO 5/30/2024 12:09:12 PM (No. 1727798)
My guess is that some jurors don't want a verdict at all. i.e. a hung jury. A hung jury would allow you to forever say you were not responsible for the outcome. And who really wants to be responsible about any aspect of this mess? Who wants to return to work and face some hostile colleagues or deal with neighbors, relatives, and friends who know you were on the jury?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: pensom2 5/30/2024 4:46:32 PM (No. 1727933)
If the two lawyers work for law firms and they vote to convict, they'll have egg on their faces when the appellate court throws out the case for multiple flawed rulings by the judge. Even in lefty New York City, law firms respect lawyers who display integrity. You know that after any guilty verdict, the knowledgeable lawyers--even the lefty's--will be rolling their eyes at the abusive stupidity of Judge Merchan's mismanagement of this trial.
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