RE: How does “each and every juror” equal four?
The Jury was divided into groups of 4. Each group is given SPECIFIC felony charges to consider, not all 34 of them.
Therefore, even if the other 8 declare Trump to be innocent on the counts they are considering, it only takes 4 to unanimously agree on one specific count to declare Trump guilty on that count of FELONY. Remember, Alvin Bragg has a 34-count FELONY indictment.
The odds are quite high for this to happen.
I have read nothing about the jury being divided into groups of four to consider the possibilities. I thought Merchan simply meant if some of them think it was one crime, and some another, it’s fine as long as every one of them think there was some secondary crime. Could be three,could be seven, could overlap, four was a hypothetical example.
This is ludicrous. Law Professor Jonathan Turley writes from inside Merchan’s court:
<><>The jury has been given little substantive judicial assistance to consider,
<><>Merchan even denied the jury a legal expert’s input,
<><>that there was no federal election violation,
<><>that required dismissal for (a) lack of evidence, or, (b) lack of a recognizable crime.
Where in the jury instructions is this stated?