Posted on 05/30/2024 5:48:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Wednesday that it is possible New York Judge Juan Merchan is not dismissing alternate jurors in order to deal with a holdout that will not convict former President Donald Trump.
Merchan issued instructions to the jury of seven men and five women Wednesday, pointing them to some of the key evidence in the case prior to the panel beginning its deliberations. Dershowitz admitted he was speculating during Wednesday’s episode of “The Dershow” about Merchan’s reason for keeping the alternates available, but said he had seen a judge in an unrelated case make a similar move.
“I admit this is highly, highly speculative, but there… I know a case on this, so that I’m not making it up: The judge said he’s not going to dismiss the alternate jurors until there’s an absolute verdict,” Dershowitz said. “One possible reason for that, again, I want to emphasize that I’m speculating, one possible reason for this might be following, it is quite cynical: Let’s assume that the jurors come back and say, ‘Sorry we’re, uh, we’re deadlocked. We have one juror who just won’t give in. Well, there are eleven of us who think he’s guilty.’ By the way, the jurors don’t say what they think, they just say there’s a deadlock, but if they come back that way, the inference will be that the jury is, that is, is locked eleven to one in favor of conviction.’”
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“So the judge hears from the jurors and the judge hears that they’re eleven to one and then the judge says, ‘Well is that other juror, the twelfth juror, is he negotiating? Is he involved in the conversations?’ And the foreman to the jury says ‘No, he’s refusing, he’s sitting there with his arms folded, saying, ‘Guy’s innocent, sorry, guy’s innocent, I’m not going to listen to you. The guy’s innocent, there’s no case here, the guy’s innocent,’” Dershowitz continued. “If I were on the jury, that’s what I’d be doing, and then the judge has the power, rarely, rarely, exercised, but he has the power, I’ve seen it done, to say ‘Well, if this juror won’t deliberate, then he’s violating his oath, and I’m going to substitute one of the alternate jurors for that juror,’ and then immediately, they come back with a twelve to nothing verdict of conviction.”
Merchan has come under fire for a perceived bias against Trump in the case. He imposed an expanded gag order on April 1 after Trump criticized the judge’s daughter in multiple posts on Truth Social, including one linking to a New York Post report on Loren Merchan’s firm helping Democrats raise $93 million off the former president’s indictment in the business records case.
Merchan also made a $15 donation to Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020 and two $10 donations to Democratic groups via ActBlue, one to a “Stop Republicans” group and another to a “Progressive Turnout Project,” according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. (RELATED: Andy McCarthy Says He Doesn’t Believe Trump Judge Will Toss Case Because His Daughter Is ‘Progressive Operative’)
“I’m not saying that that’s going to happen, I’m not saying that’s even in the judge’s mind, but knowing this judge and seeing him in action, particularly having seen him in action on the day I was in the court when they cleared everybody but I was allowed to stay, why, I still don’t know, and I saw the real Judge Merchan,” Dershowitz said. “Um, that’s not beyond the realm of possibility, so anything’s possible. This judge wants Donald Trump convicted.”
Is it possible that the entire jury could be dismissed and a DIRECTED VERDICT from the Judge be possible?....................
It’s possible but I don’t know where people are getting this “it’s one juror who refuses to convict” idea.
Sure it’s New York but it’s also a terrible case that no one seems to really even understand.
During the OJ trial, there was one white female they knew would never acquit him. So they sent a note to judge Ito saying she was taking notes to write a book. She was dismissed and was replaced by a black. That made the 12 that intended to send a message to law enforcement. The rest, as they say, is history.
That’s not a jury of your peers. That’s musical chairs.
Everything we are told about our constitution is a smoke screen.
Several reporter have commented on one jurist who showed favorable behavior when Blanche spoke. Nodding his head in agreement.
When Democrats are involved, they stop at NOTHING to do their harm. When Republicans are involved, the nastiest they get is a sternly written letter.
Send Merchan back to Columbia where he came from. He has a third world banana republic mentality.
“I admit this is highly, highly speculative....”
Not in THIS kangaroo court it’s not
He has a MARXIST mentality......................
Maybe the retired wealth manager, they are often conservative, unless they worked at Goldman Sachs :)
Impossible since he came to America at six years old and probably legal by now.
This creature is out of control. Who’s to stop him? He gets by with this corruption then every judge will pull the same.
Impossible in a criminal case
The dems are pretty deranged, but I suspect they would focus group and poll on replacement of a juror before they give Merchan his instructions. Such an action has a high likelihood of blowing up in their faces. And if any of them are still sane, they have to know it.
It is for that reason I’m no longer worried about Trump being found guilty.
Okay, say he’s found guilty by the phony Judge and his Jurors... so what? Then what? Biden has another talking point (if he can get the words out correctly)... Blah, blah, blah.
We all saw the shame way he has governed the courtroom and trial. A thousand points to appeal.
If he and the jurors don’t care about their own reputation, why should I? They are showing their scummy and illegal tactics to the world. Let it be so. What’s the crime Trump committed? No one has to even say!
The rest of us ought to applaud Trump’s shame conviction for what it is. I really think that it’s not only going to blow up in their faces; it already has.
I do not believe the Democrats care any longer about what it looks like. They feel they are so close to their goal of eliminating Donald Trump.
They will do absolutely anything. Laws and "optics" do not matter.
What good is it, if it results in him being taken off the ballot? By the time it's overturned, it will be too late.
An attorney on RAV this morning said there’s one juror who appears to be pro Trump, judging by his reaction to the proceedings. If others have noticed it, no doubt Evil Judge has, too. That guy is history, IMO.
No Doubt anyone who votes to clear Trump will be doxxed.
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