Jury forewoman explains Sussmann verdict: 'There are bigger things that affect the nation'

justthenews.com ^ | May 31, 2022 | Madeleine Hubbard

[lowbridge]

Former Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann was acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI because the jury thought it was a waste of time, jurors indicated after giving the not guilty verdict."

I don't think it should have been prosecuted," she said, The Washington Times reported. "There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI."

Special Counsel John Durham charged Sussmann with lying to the FBI about his work with the Clinton campaign and a former tech firm executive when he provided the agency with information on the since-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

She explained, "It was the government’s job to prove it, and they succeeded in some ways and not in others... We broke it down, and it did not pan out in the government’s favor."

She stressed that the verdict was not a partisan decision. 

"Politics were not a factor. ... We felt really comfortable being able to share what we thought. We had concise notes, and we were able to address the questions together," the forewoman said, according to The Washington Post. 

The government "could have spent our time more wisely," she added.

Another juror told the Post that "everyone pretty much saw it the same way" in the jury room.

[Ancesthntr]

Prosecution should move for a directed verdict, or else for a mistrial. It is not within the purview of a jury to decide whether a case should or should not have been brought, only to decide guilt or innocence based upon the facts presented to them.

Ironically, they could have just acquitted and shut their mouths - then no one could challenge it. That is jury nullification. But coming out an stating the reason as they did is, if not a violation of the law, grounds for reversing the verdict or declaring a mistrial. The evidence was CLEAR, Sussman knowingly and intentionally lied to the FBI.

One more thing - if lying to the FBI is “a waste of time,” and should not be prosecuted...then, apparently, EVERYONE can lie to the FBI with impunity, as NO SUCH CASE CAN BE BROUGHT AGAIN. I know that if I was defending a client accused of that, I’d bring up this case and make the same argument...and the argument that there needed to be equal treatment under the law. No, it wouldn’t go anywhere - but this kind of verdict only encourages further law-breaking. EVERYONE should be punished for breaking the law, or no one should; there is no in-between. This verdict simply encourages complete and total contempt for the law.

[Notthereyet]

Wow.
Just imagine the possible illegal crap these folks on THAT jury might be comfortable allowing to be done to neighbors and strangers alike....if, oh, I don’t know .....folks in the family may be doing crap..... just wondering out loud.......
I mean, if a person cannot be honest and trusted to follow the law in the ‘smaller’ stuff a person sure as SHITE ought not be trusted to the guarding and/or decisions of the ‘bigger’ stuff.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

We already have complete and total contempt of the law that ship has sailed!!

[alternatives?]

How many of the jurors received checks from the government every year?

[Ancesthntr]

“We already have complete and total contempt of the law that ship has sailed!!”

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For those who weren’t born yesterday, yes. But so many of the sheople are completely asleep, and this should wake up a few of them. Some, of course, are completely hopeless and will never understand how corrupt our system has become.

[TiGuy22]

I am with you. And I don’t think she was alone.

[sport]

It won’t.

[Night Hides Not]

This jury has just established the best, most logical reason for denying statehood to the District of Columbia. They are not to be trusted with two Senators and a congress critter to call their very own.

[Bratch]

[ought-six]

“Political agenda over rule of law.”

Yes, it has pretty much come to that.

[TigersEye]

One step closer to zero rule of law.

Why bother with new gun laws when this is where the Dems are taking this country?

[MercyFlush]

Smells like juror misconduct to me.

[ducttape45]

It's not their place to make that decision, they're supposed to provide a verdict on the charges, that's it. Where do they get off making a decision on whether the case should be tried or not????

WOW, this country is in bad shape.

I am convinced more and more every day that nothing less than the judgment of God on this wicked nation will change its course. It's too far gone.

See my tagline.

[Does so]

"this is a step in moving the country into complete chaos which is the goal of all loyal "commies".

The only talk-radio show that substitutes "COMMIES" for DemocRats is Jesse Kelly, WRKO-AM (iHeart).

[Mouton]

Did not know that but he is correct. This is a commie plot. The dems are nothing but current commies. McCarthy was right.

[Jim Noble]

“Let’s hope the next election starts us toward a fix”

This problem will not be fixed by voting.

[who knows what evil?]

MORE talk show hosts should be referring to democrats as COMMUNISTS...that is EXACTLY what they are. Throw the same label on progressives and RINOS, as well...

[CDB]

Translation: Laws don’t apply to us.

So much for the rule of law in the District of Columbia.

[Elsie]

There’s only one way to fix this problem. It’s stated in the Declaration of Independence.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[supremedoctrine]

I love that about Jessie!