[conservative98]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If the court had a facebook page, why would they let anyone not authorized by the court to post? That’s just asking for trouble. There are lots of affinity sites (like schools, veterans, etc.) where nonmembers can look but cannot post.

[Sicon]

So it would seem (not that we didn’t think it was the case anyway) that these jurors spoke to one another and had decided Trump’s guilt before they even began deliberations.

This was not a jury of Trump’s peers, it was a jury of his enemies, his liberal, leftist, TDS-suffering, amoral, sh*t-for-brains enemies.

[Ken Regis]

This should be breaking news

[SuperLuminal]

More proof that:
The only good communist is a dead communist...
It is our duty as citizens to help everyone be as good as possible...

If we are unwilling to do our duty, maybe we should not complain...

[gov_bean_ counter]

Given the political blowback, Merchan needs an out. This may be it. Will be interesting to see what he does.

[jmaroneps37]

This is the rodents’ way out of the disaster that they never expected. This might not even be true but now this is a certain my mistrial with no new trial.
$400 million and 72million coming from new donors speaks very loudly.

[Hyman Roth]

Morning Joe and the other unbiased media will cover this wall to wall. /s

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Setting up to declare a mistrial because he'll get positively slagged on appeal?

[Vendome]

Convenient for the Frauds and Criminals in this POS indictment.

If they end up in mistrial it puts the spot light on the juror until well after the election and then all will be forgotten...

[G Larry]

First, The NY Supreme Court informed Merchan of the finding, this wasn't Merchan fessing up.

Second, The NY Supreme Court would not have bothered contacting Merchan without having first verified the relationship of the poster and the juror, AND verifying there was contact between the two before the post.

The verdict will be tossed and I don't see Merchan getting another bite at the apple in time to get a conviction before the election.

How can you seat a jury that can pretend they haven't been tainted by pre-trial publicity?

[Husker24]

So at what point in the trial was this said?

[cdnerds]

allegedly (all over X and such) this is the guy who wrote the FB post:



As far as I can tell there must of been some intial vetting before that Judge would write the letters. There are 10000 trolls out there posting crap all day about the trial, why hang your hat on this one?

I may be in the minority on this but I think they are trying quietly put this case to sleep. They see what it's doing for Trump.

I don't believe Trump could be retried if there were a mistrial. A Jury was seated - if they do it again that's double Jeopardy no?

[Pilsner]

Worst case for Trump. The judge question jurors, and decides that the jury reached a verdict on X (any number from 1-33) counts before the juror spoke to her cousin, declares a mistrial on those counts, and enters a final judgment on X counts. That would:
1. Leave Trump a convicted felon,
2. Force Trump to spend time and money on an appeal,
3. Leave Trump facing felony charges in the trial court,
4. Leave Trump under the trial court gag order, and
5. Force Trump to spend time and money on the retrial of the remaining charges, which the judge could schedule before the election.

[minnesota_bound]

The tv show ‘The View’, one of the hosts who was told by Alvin Briggs that Trump would be sentence to 1 year in prison.

[maddog55]

How many times has this been posted today?

Damn folks..SEARCH BEFORE POSTING!

[Gaffer]

Mistrial - with prejudice. No further charges brought. Sanctions against Judge for his instructions to jury. Sanctions to Bragg for jury tampering.