• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    All just ammo for the appeal.

    The shooter calmly walked away, and Luigi was arrested calmly in a McDonald’s.

    At no stage was there some crazy escape or shootout where something like this would be warranted in court, and things like this have been argued to have influenced potential jury members in past cases.

    Like, it’s one straw on a giant pile of better examples so far, but it all adds up. They’re gonna OJ this shit and go so hard it ends in a mistrial or something crazy.

    Especially since the trial is going to be a media circus and Trump won’t be able to keep his nose out of it, it’ll kill him that he won’t be the main attraction.

    The thing is, support for Luigi crosses party lines. It might be what causes a maga fracture if everything falls right.

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      22 hours ago

      There’s not going to be a mistrial. This is going to be the most cooked trial you’ve ever seen in your life. Every single juror is going to vote guilty no matter what happens. Through bribery or threats it will happen. You can book it.

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        20 hours ago

        It’s improbable that there won’t be jury tampering, but the public support for this fella is pretty hard to deny.

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      16 hours ago

      TBF he was arrested calmly in a McDonalds in the next state over with a bag filled with $20,000 cash. Idk if that on its own warrants treating him as such a flight risk to warrant handcuffs, or maybe if this is just federal custody protocol, but either way I get it.