You never know what a jury might do

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Rittenhouse was impressive today, for sure.

The prosecution witnesses made the defense case very well, I thought.

The jury now knows that Rosenbaum threatened to kill Rittenhouse and chased him down; that Huber rushed him and hit him with a skateboard; and that Grosskreutz pointed a gun at Rittenhouse while Rittenhouse was sitting in the street.

Thy jury has seen numerous bystander cellphone videos that corroborate the self-defense claim.

The jury has also heard witnesses testify that Rittenhouse told them in the immediate aftermath of the shootings that he "had to" pull the trigger, and now they've seen how much he hated to do it.

But you never know what a jury might do.


Discuss.
 
other than the hysterical lefties on this board and other places, the rittenhouse defense team only had to let the prosecution and their witnesses make the case for kyle to be acquitted......
 
SmarterthanYou said:
other than the hysterical lefties on this board and other places, the rittenhouse defense team only had to let the prosecution and their witnesses make the case for kyle to be acquitted......
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That's as may be; but the jury will render the verdict, and it may not conform to the evidence that they've been asked to consider.

A hung jury would be an expressway to a retrial, IMO, and it's another possibility.
 
Legion said:
Rittenhouse was impressive today, for sure.

The prosecution witnesses made the defense case very well, I thought.

The jury now knows that Rosenbaum threatened to kill Rittenhouse and chased him down; that Huber rushed him and hit him with a skateboard; and that Grosskreutz pointed a gun at Rittenhouse while Rittenhouse was sitting in the street.

Thy jury has seen numerous bystander cellphone videos that corroborate the self-defense claim.

The jury has also heard witnesses testify that Rittenhouse told them in the immediate aftermath of the shootings that he "had to" pull the trigger, and now they've seen how much he hated to do it.

But you never know what a jury might do.


Discuss.
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This deep into this next Dark Age.....Absolutely!
 
A jury still deliberating Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate after a day of back-and-forth does not bode well for common sense.

The trial, for those who watched, aired as a slam dunk for the defense.

The longer this goes, the worse the chances for justice and the better the chances for "social justice".
 
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Juries don't always make the right decision.

Those old enough to remember will recall that the country was riveted by the eight-month-long O.J. Simpson trial.

Lots of people thought the prosecutors had laid out an open-and-shut case, spotlighting a 911 call from the victim, Nicole Brown Simpson, and demonstrating an escalating pattern of domestic violence which culminated in her murder.

Blood-stained clothes, DNA evidence, shoe prints, hair and fiber evidence. To many, it was a slam-dunk, and the contentions of O.J.’s “Dream Team” of defense lawyers about a police conspiracy seemed like desperate, fanciful nonsense. There was a preponderance of evidence, but it wasn't enough.

The jury returned with a not-guilty verdict after just four hours.

Many years later, juror Carrie Bess declared in a television interview she had voted not guilty as "payback" to the LAPD for the Rodney King verdict and speculated that “90 percent” of her fellow jurors felt that way.

Another juror, Lionel Cryer, said years later in a separate interview that in retrospect, he should have rendered a guilty verdict.

Attempting to predict a jury’s decision is a fool’s errand.

Arguments and evidence that look overwhelming to you - watching on your smartphone, laptop, or tablet - may not look the same to the jurors, who are as biased and subject to pressure as the rest of humanity.

You have no "skin in the game" The jurors do.

Unless you’re watching gavel-to-gavel coverage, your perception of how the trial is going is based upon sound bites carefully chosen for you by an agenda-driven "news" media that is attempting to summarize hours of testimony and arguments into a few seconds for political purposes.

As Dennis Miller used to joke, how reassuring is it that if you’re ever put on trial, your fate will be in the hands of twelve people who couldn’t get out of jury duty?
 
Legion said:
A jury still deliberating Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate after a day of back-and-forth does not bode well for common sense.

The trial, for those who watched, aired as a slam dunk for the defense.

The longer this goes, the worse the chances for justice and the better the chances for "social justice".
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The jurors are scared shitless.

It's that simple.
 
Are there protestors outside now? Were they there when the jury arrived....
 
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In this case, yes....
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:thup:

We can still hope.

Remember when the media mob’s “narrative journalism” convinced the left that George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin represented reckless, gun-toting vigilantism loose on the streets of America, preying upon innocent young black men?

All that one-sided “narrative journalism” left the wokesters completely unprepared for the jury’s decision, because it was contrary to everything they had been told.

You may recall other examples of juries rejecting a convenient narrative embraced by the media, like the case against the Duke Lacrosse players.
 
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