Jury selection will be a high stakes poker game. I was dismissed from one fed court jury because I was a vet. Boom, you're otta here. IIRC the charge was aggravated murder.Originally Posted by Lester Polfus
Jury selection will be a high stakes poker game. I was dismissed from one fed court jury because I was a vet. Boom, you're otta here. IIRC the charge was aggravated murder.
Last edited by Borderland; 06-16-2020 at 08:48 AM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
If it does go that way (the court allows exterior interference to dictate process and outcome), defense will have all kinds of running ground for an appeal. While I hold the system ''suspect'' in many cases, especially in these inflammatory times, I do have faith that a reasonable and just outcome will result.
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I hope you're correct. I'm a bit less than sanguine lately...but I'm hoping to be proven wrong.
There's nothing civil about this war.
Having our respective career perspectives, we both know how wrong things can go during legal proceedings. It's difficult these days to maintain that faith in the system, but it is all that we can do. More often than not, the process works, but I "get" the concern. I am concerned, too, and watching this all with great interest.
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Transcript of George Floyd arrest:
https://dam.tmz.com/document/f6/o/20...b50af753a6.pdf
That's a pretty tough read. I can't imagine a sane, sober person responding to officers in the way that Floyd did. Of course that doesn't mean he deserves to be dead, but holy crap did he seem uncooperative and twitchy.
Chauvin: Is he going to jail?
Floyd: Please listen to me
Kueng: He's under arrest right now for forgery
Floyd: Forgery for what? For what?
Lane: Let's take him out and just MRE
In this context, what is MRE?
Interesting read. Floyd shouldn't have died for something so trivial, but I also don't see a whole lot of verbalized intent to do him harm. That transcript really humanizes both sides.
It reads to me like Floyd died from the result of his incoherent uncooperativeness colliding with MPD's bad policy on how to restrain people. I can understand a world where Chauvin winds up with a manslaughter conviction, but I think murder is going to be a tough sell unless there are some salient points which are not publicly available.
ETA: I would not be shocked if MPD ends up having to pay out a big settlement to Floyd's family and being forced to change their policy on how restraint is done.
Does it have to be a jury trial? Do the local laws allow a judge? Although, I've read that juries and judges give similar verdicts.
The jury selection experts will make a buck, if someone will pay for them.
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