looking for a jury nullification
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Maybe he’ll get it and maybe he won’t. The Police Superintent is black and was very angry. And not a word was said about “fighting Trump”, only that he did it “to get more money”.
It’s possible a Chicago jury won’t be sympathetic.
If it was Jussie versus mythical “Trump supporters” then by all means, jury nullification would be very high odds. But it’s Jussie vs Chicago. That’s different.
I’m not going to pretend to predict the future. But the presence of Geragos means that some sophisticated strategy shall be employed.
I’ll just say that I don’t think a Chicago jury will care about the things you or I may speculate about.
I mean, the charge is “disorderly conduct”; which doesn’t sound like it’s any big deal. By the time this gets to trial, if it ever does, I think people will be thoroughly disengaged in caring about this. They will plead him down a couple of notches, cite a drug habit, get him involved in a kabuki rehab....and at the end, I suspect he’ll pay 5/8ths of what the Chi police spent; do 60 days in outpatient rehab, and it will generally be almost nothing.