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.”
No doubt. Count on it. The only out would be if the guy is terminally ill and doesn’t GAS about what happens to him. His family, though ...
Impossible. In New York, the defendant must agree to the swap. Cannot see Trump agreeing to that.
His parents and surrounding Columbian ccultur would have had a profound influence on his thinking growing up, more so than anything else else. Don’t dismiss the mindset of his family.
Does not matter bout the technicalities, as long as DJT is convicted and sentenced to prison.
I pray (literally)that it happens in this case.
Impossible since he came to America at six years old and probably legal by now.
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Exiled and stripped of his citizenship.
It’s fake speculation. Alt jurors are not dismissed at this point. And they are not swapped out. Dersh says one case out there. One. It ain’t happening.
...Or if the judge orders Donald Trump immediately remanded to custody pending appeals, his security detail is dismissed, and Trump is assassinated while in prison. Democrats are openly voicing hope for such things.
We can all ignore "the law" after such an outcome. It will come down to who is better at organized violence to suppress their enemies. I would not bet on the government in that scenario. I would bet on the Mexican Cartels or the Russian Mafia.
The judge would just declare that the ‘rule’ is null and void or unconstitutional or some such technicality................
There is a phrase in American law - It’s not what you know, it’s Who you know that counts............
THE SC NEEDS TO PUT THIS FAKE TRAITORIST JUDGE IN PRISON
Nothing is impossible
At that point, it would be time for SCOTUS to step in. That would be entirely unacceptable and 100% illegal. Merchan would need to be arrested for criminal action under the color of law.
Because this judge and prosecution is making rules up as they go, this whole abomination is in uncharted legal territory with no oversight.
If you fail to assume anything and I mean ANYTHING is possible, you do so at your own peril.
Do you really think he will taken off the ballot? Seriously?
I don’t think they can—or even will—do that.
Personally, I’m more worried he’ll be assassinated than anything else.
Anything is possible.
Now, my theory is, if they take out Trump, Joe goes down, as well. They know that it will backfire on Joe, but then again, they’ll gladly make that trade.
imo sure thats the easy way
out for them to blow joe out
then they will announce their
candidate at the Rat party
in Chicago this summer.
its hard to see who they
could possibly announce &
I dont think Gavin Newsome
is in the mix ... but this
is just my speculation
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