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Let me guess the jury was made up of a mostly white male jury?
Exactly how did he get aquiitted. These fucking states are si fucking racist you can't get a fair trail there unless your white.
His dad is a known racist.
https://www.wbrz.com/news/nakamoto-racist-behavior-under-investigation-at-state-police-internal-documents-show-it-dates-back-decades/
They probably expected to lose this one only to appeal immediately and hope appeals knows their ass from their elbow.
I doubt it, since prosecutors generally cannot appeal a verdict of not guilty.
I mean the citizen, you assume the crooked local court is going to do crooked local court shit.
The citizen can't appeal either. Prosecutors are in charge of a criminal case, not citizens.
There is no prosecutor in civil court.
This wasn't a civil case. This was a criminal case. Depriving someone of their civil rights is a federal crime. The officer was prosecuted by Brandon Brown.
You take the officer to civil court, win, take that win and use it for a public interest appeal, win be vindicated. The prosecutor doesn't take part in the next step homie.
Here comes the story of the Hurricane.
The lawyers on both sides have influence on who gets into the jury. If the jury had such an overwhelming bias, then the lawyers are to blame…. As always
The lawyers don't pick who is in the jury pool.
I never said they did.
they choose who to exclude. They have influence on the jury selection.
You can't exclude your way to having a representative jury. If the opposing side strikes all/most of the black people, none of your strike choices can make the jury more black.
Why Is It So Easy for Prosecutors to Strike Black Jurors?
Yeah, but you can exclude your way to having a non representative jury… which happens very often.
Your original statement was that the lawyers on both sides have influence. Which they do, but only one side is responsible for all white juries. It's not a failure of the other side for allowing that to happen.