The Trial of Derek Chauvin - Judgement(?) Day(?) has arrived!

Outcome?

  • Guilty of Murder

    Votes: 75 7.6%

  • Not Guilty of Murder (2nd/3rd), Guilty of Manslaughter

    Votes: 397 40.0%

  • Full Acquittal

    Votes: 221 22.3%

  • Mistrial

    Votes: 299 30.1%
  • Total voters
    992
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Slimy Time said:
The idea I think is that they as ordinary citizens they can counteract any institutional bias that may be against you. Realistically, they can be fucking terrible.

I remember the story my grandfather told me of the time he served on the jury, and it was slightly depressing. Car accident with someone injured, then one of them sped off. They picked up some young punk with a pink mohawk. Trial is boring as shit, but also fairly obvious that this is the police doing a fix up (this is the 70's-early 80's). Didn't matter to a lot of the jury, he looked like a punk with a mohawk, he was guilty the moment he walked in, boring evidence be damned. Took a long time for 3-4 of them (including my grandfather) to convince the rest to actually look at the boring evidence and statements made instead of going "I don't like how he looks, he did it".

And that was for a fucking car accident with a minor injury, let alone a hotly politicised case with communists and anarchist at the door, ready to intimidate and possibly hurt people if it didn't go their way. Juries are trash, but IDK what the alternative is. A magistrate like the do for minor crimes in the UK? That's relying on one guy being objective and not disliking you because of the shirt you are wearing.
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>The idea I think is that they as ordinary citizens they can counteract any institutional bias that may be against you. Realistically, they can be fucking terrible.
Yeah that's what I'm saying, I don't understand how anyone can honestly think that.

>IDK what the alternative is
Unironically trial by combat or some shit. Would it be any less absurd?
 
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What do the charges against Derek Chauvin in George Floyd's death mean?

Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of three different counts, with each charge requiring a different element of proof as to the ex-officer's state of mind.
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Even though Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all of the charges, he will only be sentenced on the most serious: second-degree unintentional murder.

That charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years.
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Place your bets on the sentences now.
 
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Fliddaroonie said:
I know the USA is a Common Law/case law system. Would not the fact the President, as a member of the legislature declaring him guilty, perhaps impact on the impartiality of the case?

Edited for clarity: As in, could it lead to the case being overturned, seeing as how the diaper wearing demented old chucklefuck in charge saying Chauvin is guilty be seen as being prejudicial and not in keeping with separation of powers?
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The US President is the head of the Executive Branch and not a member, in any way, of the Legislative Branch.
 
Ita Mori said:
You people really don't know when to quit dreaming.
It's admirable, yet laughable too.

Rittenhouse is done. Mob rule is the law and no faggy 2A advocates will take the time to put the same pressure on juries that antifa and BLM do. Conservatives are cucks who constantly get fucked and still think they can win doing absolutely nothing except hope the law prevails while neolibs and leftists actively and successfully change and attack the law.

You are not Luigi, you cannot win by doing nothing.
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So tell me what we should do oh great grand wizard? If ya remember 1/6 and how well that went just tell me what will you do?
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Quantum Diabetes said:
I don't care how hard they shove this shit down our throat and up our asses, it will lead to blacks thinking they are invincible.
Then the vigilante shit starts. This has been planned for a long time, to divide everyone and soften up America for the real war.
Everyone is a sucker.
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lay off the cape shit, spiderman isn't coming to save you.
 
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Slimy Time said:
Do they have confirmation on the jury dox? I wouldn't be surprised that it was some anime cosplayer thot/brainlet, but would like to know instead of throwing random pictures and accusations.
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No but pretty sure she just doxed herself because sluts need attention. And this is the ultimate asspat one could recieve. She'll be hailed a hero by the white sojus (and still hated by blacks because white) but a hero nonetheless.
 
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Not Really Here said:
The US President is the head of the Executive Branch and not a member, in any way, of the Legislative Branch.
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Thanks so much, and that's a really interesting fact, actually :D

That said, he still said Chauvin was guilty while deliberations were ongoing. Would there be any grounds to dismiss it based on that? Like prejudicing the Jury or something similar?
 
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