The facts are clear, but jury intimidation is a real factor.
My guess is a hung jury, not because they don't know, but out of pure fear for their life after court.
They know that someone in the jury room will leak out the names and votes and the blm and antifa goons will visit them at night.
“My guess is a hung jury, not because they don’t know, but out of pure fear for their life after court.”
Come now, take off your tinfoil hat. The jury has nothing to fear for the police will protect them. I mean, jeez! (stated with the deepest of sarcasm)
Seriously, people fearing for their lives for not doing “the right thing” was likely quite common in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. The difference was the Germans and Russians did not have to think out a situation for three days, they just followed whatever marching orders it took to keep alive.
That’s the goal of our democrat party, or there would not be threats of death, riots and property destruction, all unabated with the government and cops doing nothing about it.
Ya, thinking some jurors are desperate to pin SOMETHING on Rittenhouse, hence interest in the bad drone video.
I’m expecting the judge is planning a directed verdict, but giving the jury a chance to come to the right conclusion. They can’t conclude that _beyond_a_reasonable_doubt_ Rittenhouse is guilty of possessing the weapon (it’s legal), brandishing (drone video way too blurry/low-res), manslaughter (each attacked him _first_), etc; there just isn’t any certainty possible for any charge. Judges _can_ discount a jury’s verdict. Alas, this may be the worst possible outcome, as the mob will see “conviction overruled” as jury coming to the designated conclusion but the old white judge circumvents it; judge wouldn’t survive it.
If the jury actually stands up for what’s right, the threatening mob may very well disperse - once justice affirms good men with guns is lawful.
Would dearly like to know the identities and backgrounds of the jurors who are refusing to find him innocent.