Due to an oversight, Trump's attorneys failed to ask for a jury trial within the time allotted to them

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It depends on where the jury pool comes from. I doubt that 4 people in Manhattan or Brooklyn would want to exonerate him, much less 40%. But if they can pull from Staten Island as well, his chances of finding at least one goober who would be willing to ignore the facts and exonerate him get larger.

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      1 year ago

      Long trials tend to have a large jury pool to select from. I was recently in the pool for a 7 week trial in Oakland and there were 150 of us to choose from. The defense just needs to find 4 Republicans to get into the jury and the case is over. You would assume a staunch Republican would try hard to get on the jury to help protect trump.

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        1 year ago

        I think you underestimate how much New Yorkers (Particularly NYC) loathe Trump. Brooklyn and Queens saw something insane like 75% of the vote go to Biden, in Manhattan and then Bronx it was closer to 85%. And we can't assume the remaining 15% are full MAGA, either, they may have just not liked Biden but were ambivalent to Trump.

        Staten Island is where NYC keeps its Conservatives, it went for Trump 52 to 42.

        Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_New_York