Running racism in America thread

In all honesty, even in a non high profile case, how in the world do we ever get any criminal convictions or acquittals?
In any given trial, you have to get a dozen Americans to agree to facts. All it takes is one person who is pissed off they are on jury duty or one zealot, and it's a hung jury.

 

When they sit through a trial and they put in the effort to deliberate none of the 12 wants an unfinished job. They do take it seriously to come to a verdict.

 

I was in the federal jury pool for nine months once. I was never actually seated. I always got excused by the defense because I am smarter than they were*.
If I were to ever be on a jury, I'm going to vote for what I think is right, no matter what the other 11 say. If that means a hung jury, so be it.

*Defense attorneys don't like educated people who can think critically.

 

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My cousin became a cop a year or two ago. Nice enough guy, he was 40ish when he joined, hoping he doesn’t get mixed up with the worst of the crop.

 

But his Lee Greenwood fandom wasn’t a red flag.

 

JFC. So much for the country rallying around good ole Team USA.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/11/sun...n-olympian-victim-of-anti-asian-violence.html

 

I have been on a jury and I agree with that but my experience was a long time ago. I no longer have faith in my fellow citizens.

 

Wasn't the guy who lunged for the gun defending himself?

Quite an American hall of mirrors here.

 

I have more faith in my neighbors, I guess.

Every jury I've served on has been pretty reasonable and representative of the community. Folks ask lots of good questions given the chance, and most are persuadable by common sense discussion. They want to do right.

It's a corollary to my pet theory that we'd all be better off if we selected our president by picking someone at random off the M14A crosstown bus.