[Chode]

question: would he would have been better off having the judge hear the case instead of trial by jury?

juries don’t have to justify their decision where the judge would have to do, IN WRITING!

and judges don’t like to get overturned...

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I had the same question. Defense lawyers might have thought 12 jurors voting guilty on all charges was unlikely.

Cahill worked for Klobuchar and

In 2015, Judge Peter A. Cahill dismissed misdemeanor charges linked to trespass, unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct faced by 11 organizers of the protest which took place at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, in December 2014, The Star Tribune reported.