The first case that will be heard among the five that Donald Trump faces will be on Oct. 2, 2023, in Manhattan. But it won't be before a jury. NBC News reported this weekend about the length of the upcoming Trump trials. But buried in the report was the revelation that Trump's lawyers checked the bo...
  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    402·
    1 year ago

    “With respect to Trump, an overwhelming majority of the grand jurors recommended that the district attorney seek indictments against him for a litany of offenses related to the call,” wrote Lawfare’s Anna Bower. “Elsewhere in the report, the jurors also recommend charges against Trump in connection to separate communications with Georgia officials and other efforts to overturn the 2020 election. For each of the charges recommended for Trump, one juror—though perhaps not the same juror—voted against the charges.” In all of Trump’s trials with a jury, a single hold-out could stop the former president from being ruled guilty and facing a sentence.

    It sounds like one person is already deciding Trump’s guilt (or non-guilt, as it were), so I’d rather it be a judge than some random juror.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      It seems far more likely to me that one person refused to charge Trump, than to believe that multiple people thought he was guilty of every charge but one and differed on which that one charge was.