The court system cared enough to inform the attorneys.
But your argument is defeatist. Nobody cares that the J6 prisoners are being abused and having medical treatments denied, so it’s a non-issue. Happens all the time. No big deal.
Sometimes sliding into the ocean is a big deal, even if nobody else seems to care.
You’re acting like a troll, accusing me of lying. I’m not gonna engage with a troll. Bye.
Which happens ALL THE TIME.
It’s not defeatist. It’s acknowledging reality. Heck I’ve gotten texts from friends on juries.
Part of the problem is that we have so many rules that they can’t all be enforced. Because people are jerking off about maybe a text being sent by a juror (MAYBE), they don’t have the bandwidth to pay attention to mistreatment of prisoners. Which is another CONSTANT problem in this country that we really should be doing something about.
See there’s only so much bandwidth. Focus on the important, realize what isn’t, and stop letting the unimportant distract from the important.
You’ve insulted me in every single post on this thread. And you HAVE lied about what I said. You ARE a troll. Good luck not engaging with yourself.
A better way for me to have initially responded would have been:
“It seems that you are saying that because everybody does something it makes it no big deal. Is that what you’re saying?”
Later on it was acknowledged that this isn’t a valid argument for things that are very bad but common.
So the reason for the poster to say this isn’t a big deal doesn’t seem like it is the reason he actually gave. There is some OTHER reason that poster thinks this is no big deal. Maybe being influenced by somebody else during deliberations doesn’t seem important to him. Why does he believe that? I don’t know, because the reason he gave was that it happens all the time.
I think the Mom in me kicked in and I reacted instantly with the “If all your friends jump over a cliff does that mean it’s no big deal and you should do it too?”
I’m glad the poster in question doesn’t seem to believe the argument he made and actually does believe that there are some important things that you don’t just let slide because “everybody does them”/they’re common.
I think what he meant to say was that in the bigger picture, letting an unauthorized person influence you during jury deliberations is not worth focusing your attention on. I don’t agree with that; suppose this Michael threatened his cousin during that communication. That’s always a possibility, and the rules are in place to make sure that doesn’t happen. All kinds of rules have been broken by Judge Merchan, and if none of them are confronted because they seem piddly by themselves, then you end up with just a little bit of poison in your drink - but it ends up killing you just the same.
At some point you have to confront wrongs even if they seem small simply because the small things are the only things the world’s “handlers” let us confront, in a world where they kill us using a thousand paper cuts.
I made no personal attacks against the poster, although I probably overreacted to the “dude”, probably because the Mom in me thought the argument being made was childish. The poster did attack me, which is trollish and an attitude that very frequently causes shitstorms here at FR.
I apologize for my knee-jerk “Mom” response.