[SamuraiScot]

As I understand it, the defense strategy here has always been to assume the railroad and force the judge into errors that show bias, opening the way to appeal. A win in this venue would just be an unexpected bonus caused by the incompetence and open malfeasance of the prosecution and the incoherence and transparent dishonesty of its witnesses.

But even without those elements, oversampling blacks and under-sampling Hispanics in the jury pool seems to be in evidence already. That's an invitation to appeal in itself. Plus all the c*** Her Judgeship has dished out so far—such as refusing to force Crump to testify. The question is whether she can keep the prosecution's case from imploding before she's humiliated on appeal.

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent summary.