Of course we won’t find one. But doesn’t actively showing disdain/hostility to the defense council not qualify as favoring one side and being obvious about it?
I have very mixed feelings about this trial.
One the one hand;
More than one LEO on this forum has stated that the defendant acted inappropriately, and should be found guilty of something.
My brother who has 25+ years experience as an LEO in one of our state’s largest PD’s has said that the defendant acted inappropriately and should be found guilty of something.
I have numerous LEO patients, and I’ve discussed the case with them during office visits and more than one has said yet again the exact same thing.
As a conservative American, I believe in rule of law and being accountable for one’s actions. So if the defendant did break the law, he should be found accountable.
On the other hand:
The top 3 honorable elected officials in this country (as well as others) have publicly stated that this trial isn’t so much about one man’s actions, but it’s all about our country’s history of racism and the current backbone of systemic racism in law enforcement (vomit). Nancy even went as far as to say Floyd sacrificed himself for the cause and should be a hero. Chauvin is being sacrificed, no mention of that!
One of the top Democratic leaders has called for outright violence if the “correct” verdict wasn’t reached. To top it off, the leadership of that party absolutely refused to call her out on that or allow any internal investigations. How does that not influence a fair trial.
After reading Mas’ blog posted earlier, it’s really not hard to view this trial as David vs Goliath. I can’t speak as to Mr Nelson’s expertise, but one snippet I caught after getting off of work early one day had him all flustered because the prosecution had given him an outdated version of a witness’ slide presentation. So the numbers Nelson was going to argue weren’t the ones the jury saw. He looked like a fool. The prosecution said, whoops, honest mistake and we will fix it, but the damage had been done already.
The outright hostility shown by some jurors to the defense-Fair trial?
Tobin, have to say he is truly one of the Gods of pulmonary medicine. As far back as the 90’s when I was a post-graduate trainee, if you wanted the gospel textbooks of lung medicine, his one was one of the top 2, certainly top 3. Still is. His name will be with our profession for decades after he leaves the scene.
For him to testify that he was doing this out of the goodness of his heart, not because the prosecution came to him, because after he saw the video he just had to put down everything he was doing in order to testify; how does that not demonstrate a presumption of guilty instead of innocence?
Overall seems like a highly unfair trial, and fairness is another virtue of being conservative.