shish_mish to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agoUS prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangionewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1668
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minus-square@Ksin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish55•1 month agoThat’s seems pretty damn ballsy of them since unless they are extremely confident in the jury selection it’s practically guaranteed to result in a hung jury if they know that finding him guilty will result in the most severe verdict.
minus-square@Formfiller@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish36•1 month agoI’m sure that will be as corrupt as everything else this administration touches
minus-square@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish29•1 month agoYeah there’s no better reason to use jury nullification than when government wants to kill a guy for political reasons.
minus-square@InvertedParallax@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoFederal juries are way, way easier to tilt towards the prosecution, and the judge has far more power, even assuming he isn’t a Trump appointee.
That’s seems pretty damn ballsy of them since unless they are extremely confident in the jury selection it’s practically guaranteed to result in a hung jury if they know that finding him guilty will result in the most severe verdict.
I’m sure that will be as corrupt as everything else this administration touches
Yeah there’s no better reason to use jury nullification than when government wants to kill a guy for political reasons.
Federal juries are way, way easier to tilt towards the prosecution, and the judge has far more power, even assuming he isn’t a Trump appointee.