You make a salient point.
I was merely taken aback after Manafort’s legal team expressed such confidence in beating the charges.
I gather that a woman who served on the jury, who was/is a Trump supporter and who spoke with Fox News, reported that save for another woman’s reasonable doubt, Manafort would have been convicted on all 18 counts.
“woman who served on the jury, who was/is a Trump supporter and who spoke with Fox News, reported that save for another woman’s reasonable doubt, Manafort would have been convicted on all 18 counts.”
Jury nullification is a concept that needs to be understood by anyone serving on a jury - the Trump supporter saw this was a political persecution - though Manifort was likely guilty of something it would have never been pursued but for Mueller using it to put the squeeze on Manifort. This kind of gross abuse of the criminal justice system should be answered by any jury that recognizes it. Honestly, with the main witness so conflicted to start with, I would have had reasonable doubt anyway.