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HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Relin posted:

he wont walk free you doomers

he will get a much reduced punishment however

I think it's unlikely he walks free, but if the defense did their job during jury selection he won't be convicted either

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HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Vitamin P posted:

The defence are brand-building themselves significantly more than they are trying to actually win the case.

I mean they needed to make sure to pick a jury that had the best possible odds of containing at least one boot licking pig worshipper. That’s the entire defense. We have to wait to see if they pulled it off

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Vitamin P posted:

Jury selection isn't a big deal it's normal, what's hosed up is their actions after that. The EMT lady was very obviously put on the stand without being given any guidance.

Edit: or was given guidance actively counter to a successful prosecution against Chauvin being achieved, but that's conspiracy talk and heaven forbid

Nah. Jury selection is a big deal. The defense only needs one

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Xaris posted:

lmao at this naivity. he's walking

Nah. Personally, I think this ultimately plays out the same way as when Slager murdered Walter Scott. The first jury’s gonna hang

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Lib and let die posted:

lol you wrote in kamala

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Dustcat posted:

lol, this thread got so owned by spiderhyphenman that now they have to own themselves again over his protest vote

Gotta say that incorrectly predicting the US justice apparatus to fail to actually produce a just result feels like a pretty small self-own given the track record

Writing in Kamala on the other hand will never stop being funny

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

some plague rats posted:

Isn't this exactly what premeditation requires

Premeditation in the legal sense only requires the intent to kill before taking the act. Premeditation (for any normal non cop person) can be established in the literal blink of an eye. If you decide to kill someone and immediately thereafter point the gun and pull the trigger that is premeditation for legal purposes. In the real world you can’t prove that unless they confess, so any court is going to accept the fact that you did it intentionally as enough evidence to prove it was premeditated

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HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

some plague rats posted:

Well no poo poo. What a weird definition of premeditation the courts are using

yeah, this is basically what happens when you're working off of the meaning of words as they were used hundreds of years ago instead of the meaning of words as they've evolved in the intervening centuries

also because you're working with lawyers and judges who are highly motivated to manipulate words to mean what they want them to mean and not what they actually mean

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