• theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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    Donnie’s complaints

    • Complained about not having a jury
    • Complained about having a jury
    • Complained about jury selection being too boring
    • Complained about falling asleep and being called Sleepy Don.
    • Complained he can’t see Baron’s graduation
    • Complained at a Bodega about Bodegas being the epicenter of violence and crime
    • Complained about not having unlimited STRIKERS
    • Complained about gag order
    • Complained about gag order being enforced
    • Complained about Jimmy Kimmel hurting his feelings at the Oscar’s, which was 38 days ago.

    Wah wah wah. Fucking crybaby. How about not breaking the fucking law asshole?

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      Haha. He’s still complaining about Kimmel?

      That moron doesn’t even realize his complaints cause more people to tune into Kimmel to see Kimmel make fun of him every night.

      And I hope Kimmel brings this up tonight.

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    “I thought STRIKES were supposed to be ‘unlimited’ when we were picking our jury?” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

    State law, a law that’s been around for over a hundred years, limits it to 10 strikes.

    That’s what he gets for thinking again.

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      Trump always complains when he has to follow the rules. Doesn’t matter what the rule is, he always wants to be the exception.

      It probably comes from the decades of experience he has in not having to follow the rules.

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        And he’s always been a lying manipulative piece of shit too.

        Exemplifying that here - he actually does get unlimited strikes if there’s a legal reason that juror shouldn’t be there (e.g. if they say, “I’m not going to consider the evidence, I’ve already made up my mind.”) He’s only limited to 10 strikes without having a legal basis for them, but his followers are going to see Trump’s whining and walk away with the impression that his lawyers are forced to spend those 10 strikes on “I’ve already made up my mind” jurors.

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          Trump supporters already have the impression that all the potential jurors are out to get Trump, because their whole worldview necessitates a constant attitude of victimhood.

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    You couldn’t pay me enough to be a juror for that trial. Sure, just paint a target on my back for this cult leader who’s backed by half the government!

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    No, only you have unlimited strikes when it comes to the law. You threaten another person 483 more times, and we might fine you $1000.

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    Is it reasonable to think that if his lawyers get even one maga nut on the jury, they’d have to re-try the case?

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      I am pretty certain jury verdicts have to be unanimous or it’s a mistrial, so, yeah, that’s a reasonable thing to think

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        The parts of my family that are Trump supporters are all from NYC. I imagine they never have actually met Trump though. I imagine actually meeting him would cure them.

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      It’s up to the government to decide whether or not they re-try a case if there is a hung jury. It’s my understanding that most of the time, they do not re-try the case because of the time and effort involved with no guarantee that the outcome would be any different. So usually a hung jury is a victory for the defense.

      I’m not a lawyer, that’s just my layman’s understanding from the legal stuff I’ve seen and read.

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      No idea why you got downvoted. Nearly everyone will know who he is, since he was the damn President of the country. Nearly everyone will know a lot of stuff about him, since he never fucking shuts up on social media. He has a large percentage of the country who loves him and a larger percentage of people who absolutely hate him. Finally, the case and jury selection is in New York, where he has been in the news for 40 years.

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      People seem to think that a prior opinion about the dependent automatically means that a potential juror cannot be impartial. All that is required is that the juror can render a verdict based solely on the evidence presented at trial. Plenty of people with strong opinions about Trump himself can still be impartial jurors.

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        Yup. And those 10 strikes are for exactly that. If you can’t prove a juror will be biased but suspect they will be, then you can use one of your 10 strikes to exclude them. But you have an unlimited amount of “for cause” strikes, where the juror has admitted that they wouldn’t be able to stay impartial.

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        I’m not sure that’s true. Even a person with a great deal of integrity and respect for the law is going to be biased subconsciously to some extent by the knowledge that this case may change the outcome of a particularly important presidential election. A person whose respect for the law is less than absolute may even consider affecting the outcome of the election to be a moral obligation.

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          More autistic people should be jurors. It would be the perfect job for certain autistic people who are very rules based.

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            I agree. I am autistic and was a jury foreman about 20 years ago. It was pretty awesome, and I was helping keep the other jurors in line, reminding them when evidence submitted was deemed immaterial and not to be considered in our verdict…all that stuff. 10/10 Would perform my civic duty again (12/10 with rice)

            It would be an honor and a privilege to be on Pissbaby Don’s jury just to have the opportunity to find him guilty, but I’d have to avoid a for cause strike to do so. Thankfully, part of my autistic skill set is that I happen to be a fantastic liar. I don’t lie to people I care about, apart from spinning fantastic tales and then saying, “Naw, I’m just fucking with you. 😏”

            For Joe Schmo, rules-based impartiality. For Republican politicians, self-affirmed white supremacists, shit-stirring talking head bigots, and JK Rowling though, get fucked, here come your god-damned consequences.

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          Hi government please choose me as juror I definitely will not intentionally give him the maximum sentence

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      That’s why they’re not allowed to ask nix people for being biased.

      Everyone already has their opinions. The best they can do is look for people that aren’t dogmatic.

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    Of course that’s what he wants to do. Reject all of them and then have the judge declare a mistrial when they can’t seat a full jury.

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      Trump mostly caused those issues though. He talks about these things constantly. Then argues the trial cannot start because there’s too much attention.

      Further, there is a pre selection. The judge rejected loads of people beforehand.