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You very clearly do not know much about the law, Bob. Every jury pool is different, and what sort of jury pool you have your case in front of has a lot to do with the chances of success in court. For example in our 2nd Judicial District in most criminal cases, a Washington County jury pool is going to be most friendly to defendants, and Beaufort, Hyde, and Tyrell fair to defendants, but Martin County is heavily pro-prosecution.

One issue the left likes to tout is that "attorneys for both sides helped pick the jury" and while in a general sense this is true, the devil is in the details. Jurors can be removed two ways, a challenge for cause, which the judge must approve, and a preemptory challenge, which either attorney can use for any reason. Challneges for cause are unlimited, but each attorney has only a small number of peremptory challenges they can use, and then they run out. When a judge is biased, he may deny challenges for cause for a particular party, and some of the reported information about one juror who sat on the case indicated that was happening in this case. When an attorney has an adverse jury pool like the one against Trump in Manhattan, he has to use those preemptory challenges sparingly. He may have a juror he really doesn't want, but if he uses the challenge he may run out and get stuck with someone even worse. A biased jury pool and a biased judge gave Trump the very short end of the stick in jury selection.

The Democrats are setting the case against Trump in places with jury pools that are heavily stacked against Trump politically - Manhattan, Atlanta, Washington, DC. If they could have found an excuse to file the documents case anywhere but Florida they would have done so, but they were stuck with trying that one there.

Given the political situation in Manhattan, the trial jury would have convicted a ham sandwich if its name was Donald Trump. The fact that the very biased trial judge gave very slanted and unconstitutional jury instructions and refused to allow Trump to put on key defense evidence further insured that the Democrats got the result they wanted in spite of their own witnesses blowing up on them.

Commented: Friday, June 7th, 2024 @ 10:26 am By: Steven P. Rader

Mark Pomerantz, mentioned in the article above, who was Bragg's chief investigator was subpoenaed by a Congressional Committee to testify on his actions. When asked by a congressman if he had violated any criminal laws in his investigation of Trump, Pomerantz, who was under oath, refused to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate him. Then when he was asked if he violated anyone's civil rights in his investigation of the Trump case, he again refused to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. When a lawyer who is Bragg's chief investigator keeps pleading the Fifth Amendment on his investigation, one wonders what underhanded tactics he used.

All of this reminds one of Stalin's KGB chief Beria, as the Stalin Show Trials were gearing up, saying to his boss Stalin "show me the man and I will find you the crime."

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 9:59 pm By: John Steed

In the lying department, Joe Biden takes the cake. His misrepresentations about himself and his family is like George Santos on steroids, and that goes back years. In his first campaign for president, he had to withdraw when he got caught reading a speech by UK Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock about his family background verbatim, and Biden's family history was not even close to Kinnocks. And he does it repeatedely like constantly claimed his son Beau was killed in action in Iraq when he really died of cancer while holding public elected office in Delaware. And then you have Biden's sexual assault on his Senate staffer Tara Reade.

When it comes to government records, a President by law has rights to keep some of them under the Presidential Records Act. A vice president or senator has no such right. It was Biden's keeping classified records, some of which he removed as a US Senator from secure facilities and some he kept from his time as vice president that was far more egregious than the claims against Trump on records. Yet the special counsel appointed by Biden's corrupt AG Merrick Garland refused to take any action. Garland even refuses to turn over copies of the tapes that special counsel said justified his failure to prosecute "a kind forgetful old man". This is a double standard and a two tier justice system based on politics.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 8:06 pm By: Conservative Voter

A Grand Jury of ordinary people found evidence to bring him to trial. A jury of ordinary people both attys picked rendered a verdict saying he was guilty of election fraud. Trump always says he's innocent, has never ever done anything wrong nor has he "ever" done anything to apologize for in his life, really? He cheated on 3 wives!

I don't believe Biden was behind any of it as he didn't want to be blamed because he knew Trump would call foul & he did anyway. We all know Trump lies about everything. I've resigned from the Republican Party because of Trump. He is damaging our country & his party. Trump says he's innocent of any and all crimes yet he admitted to taking boxes & boxes of Top Secret documents then refused to give them back for 18 mos. The FBI coordinated w/ his secret service AND attorneys of a legal search warrant to take the documents back. Trump was in NJ & was not even in FL when that happened.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 3:09 pm By: Former Republican

And none of this is true

Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 10:54 pm By: Big Bob