As for the jury, a pool of 500 candidates will be thinned down to 12 jurors by April 22. There is a little controversy on one of the questions for the prospectives that seems to be trying to avoid jury nullification. https://frankreport.com/2019/04/11/jury-questionnaire-will-attempt-to-weed-out-informed-jurors-in-nxivm-trial-by-lying-to-them/
I found the information at the link very interesting.
Does anyone know who is behind FrankReport or their politics?
I completely agree with the principle described there, but I wonder if this is a leftwing site explaining the concept of jury nullification for the benefit of the derps. Not for the benefit of truth and justice.
The left was all against jury nullification when they were in control of the legal system. It was the only refuge of patriots. But now that they have lost control of the legal system, they seem to be looking for any loophole they can find to avoid justice.
The examples given at the link can be taken a number of ways. Interesting that the author would pick the Salem witch trials as one of the examples. Are we going to see a certain witch on trial??? And are there going to be allegations of actual witchcraft or satanism or something similar? Now that I’m forced to think about this, I have to say I have always believed (because I learned it in a government school) that the Salem witch trials were about hysteria and false accusations and that there were no such things as witches. I would still tread carefully in this area, but given what I’ve learned about being lied to by government/schools/media I’ll have to re-examine some of what I think I know on this topic.
The website frankreport.com is run by a fellow named Frank Parlato.
I haven’t seen anything to indicate a political leaning, but would suspect slightly conservative.
He’s kind of a goomba NY fella. He once worked for NXIVM as a consultant for public relations. I don’t think he’s a lawyer. After some short period he observed probably illegal acts (financial shenanigans) by NXIVM and decided to get out.
Once he left, Bronfman and Raniere came after him via lawfare. He survived that assault and seemingly dedicated his life now to taking down NXIVM. He runs two or three news websites focused on Albany, NY, and environs.
He’s the go-to guy for all things NXIVM. Is he biased? You bet. He hates Raniere and Bronfman and DOS and NXIVM.