Why the defense will lose this case (unless they change strategy)
That kind of declaratory statement immediately sets off the BS meter. NO ONE can make such a prediction with certainty. It is one thing for a jury not to send a black celebrity to prison for murder. It is quite another to send three innocent young men to prison for decades. Joe Cheshire V knows the legal system in NC as well as anyone. Does anyone think the defense has not given extensive thought to the racial factors?
Although we are just 3 or 4 preliminary hearings into this case, the Nifong strategy is clear. And it will be devastatingly effective. And that will be a slam dunk for the DA.
Says a very confident internet poster. Look, Nifong should not be underestimated ; nor should the home town refs (judges). However, the DA still has to present a case. So far, everything we've seen from the DA's files are prejudicial to his own case! The only figleaf he has is that "he must have SOMETHING". He won't have that figleaf at trial and he knows it.
With Nifong standing there as the sole defender of the safety of the citizens of Durham against marauding out-of-state jocks, both black and white jurors will respond.
Another declaration that no one can make with certainty.
If this case goes to trial, and it will, it is imperative that the defense lawyers attempt to sever the cases and try each individually. To try and break this dynamic.
Just how does it follow that trying them individually will break this dynamic? The same dynamic the poster outlined would still be at work.
It will not be easy but if they don't, Finnerty, Evans and Seligmann may well be convicted.
The poster has not shown why the indicted are better off being tried individually, and has made several unsupported assertions. I'm confident that Joe Cheshire V has considered every point this doom and gloom poster made.
In short, I call BS.
I totally agree. I think we just heard from Chicken Little!