Posted on 05/29/2024 7:27:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
'I've Seen It Done': Alan Dershowitz Speculates That Merchan Is Prepared To Swap 'One Juror' Who 'Won't Give In'
I’m speaking of SCOTUS rulings that stated the specific crime had to be agreed to in unanimity by the Jury.
In other words, Juror #1 can’t think he’s guilty of Manslaughter and Juror #5 think he’s guilty of murder - for a murder conviction.
Judge Merchan told the jury they don’t have to agree unanimously on what the Crime is Trump committed.
It’s a very big deal.
Ad-hominem. Blah blah blah.
Hell. Why doesn’t he just keep changing them out until he finds his lynch mob?
Force feed Merchan some candies, tie him up to a tree, and use him as a piñata.
Agreed.
unless a juror takes ill during deliberations, they cant be swapped out..
String the bastard up
They will poison the recalcitrant juror.
It’s been proved 57 times, the law is what Merchan says it is.
He’s going to get his man, and being overturned down the road doesn’t hurt the Dems.
The can do a lot of strong arming. They keep them in deliberations, he can sequester them. He can change the foreman. He can tell them to get back in there and work it out.
He’s not letting them have the Jury Instructions because he wants to discern their direction and herd them to a guilty position.
If this was the 12 Angry Men, Fonda would have been kicked out after the first vote and Jack Warden would have made the game.
I’m reading that as the Defendant must consent to the choice of the alternate juror as to whether or not they are acceptable. I am not reading it as the Defendant has any input as to the juror being disqualified by the judge.
Some of them will be writing books. I suspect the 2 lawyers have already roughed out their drafts.
I used the same analogy as well. You can’t just list a bunch a crimes and say as long as everyone agrees at least one of these occurred the defendant is guilty.
Each crime must be a unanimous verdict.
Either way, if the defendant refuses to agree, it’s a mistrial.
What if the defendant won’t agree that any of the alternates are acceptable? Bearing in mind that Merchan approved as jurors/alternates people who had said that they hate Trump.
The words “I don’t think they can...” with regard to what the regime can and cannot do, are no longer applicable.
We don’t yet realize how far it’s gone but we’re going to find out.
“You must bring in an alternate juror BEFORE all the testimony, or that new juror will know nothing about the case.”
You are presuming the existing jurors know anything about the case Laz.
“I thought alternate jurors sat through the case just like the official jurors so they can replace disqualified jurors.
That would be the whole point of alternate jurors.”
In New York Supreme Court the alternates sit in the jury box for the whole case. Once the deliberations begin they are dismissed.
Exactly. If the judge can’t be 100% transparent and truthful in providing clear, concise instructions I can reference and read about a specific crime and the relevant evidence it’s a “not guilty” 110% of the time.
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