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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Yeah but such a jury wouldn't be his peers, put me in coach I'm literally one of his peers

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 13 points 10 hours ago

It just says a jury of peers.

If a cannibal is on trial you can't call a jury impartial because none of them are cannibals, or based on the fact that they all think cannibalism is disgusting. Form the jury up, and let's get this Jury Nullification party started.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

No one should be on death row. Set this man free!

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 13 points 14 hours ago

Cool. Get him a non-neutral jury. I've got bigger shit to worry about.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I think being pissed at health insirance companies is universal and therefore neutral

[–] hakase@lemm.ee 31 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"Neutral" jurors, of course, crucially being ones both 1. ok with corpos killing regular people and 2. not ok with regular people killing corpos.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Also 3. People willing to consider the death penalty for a mugging.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 82 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They are struggling so hard to find somebody who doesn't know anything about what happened and why.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

they were blasting his news for the first 2 weeks, and couldnt come up with a way to make it a "left problem" until a month later.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 38 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

If there's someone out there that hasn't heard about this case, I don't think they should be allowed on the jury either. They're obviously incapable of paying attention to anything

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He can’t get a “fair” trial because the corporations have screwed everyone over for pure profit. Only people who haven’t been screwed over are the rich. It’s a show trial that will convict and demand the death penalty because how dare the rich faces consequences.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

How dare we not have a supervillain like Bane to fight for the people, build an army and break Mangione out

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 68 points 22 hours ago

Jury nullification.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 43 points 22 hours ago

Shared or haha’d a segment with Bill Burr adamantly saying Free Luigi?

Holy shit lol

"I love how they acted surprised. 'Wawawhhwawawaw why did that happen?' He wrote on the bullets why it happened."

Bill Burr FTW

[–] False@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I guess they'll have to have a jury made of nothing but CEOs.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

Ah yes....his peers

[–] waterore@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Gee seems like every American has experienced a moment of wishing they could get revenge on an insurance company and then took in interest in the case where a hero did. Weird that.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago

I haven't had an experience like that with anyone I'm close with, but I'm still pissed the fuck off at them because a) I could and b) I have empathy for the many people who have. So they just need to fill the jury with people without empathy.

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 5 points 19 hours ago

Screwed is the new neutral.

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So what happens when they can’t find a jury? Had there ever been a case of that in U.S. history?

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

There's always someone, although they might struggle with the whole "his peers" thing if it's basically just a bunch of mennonites.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago

Everyone's favourite video game characters are the Super Mario Brothers.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago

The idea of "neutral" long ago hit an iceberg and is sinking into a grim experience of mass suffering, this is really less an economic and policy issue now and more of a weird rhetorical contortion of a war against the average USian into abstract terms that disguise the fact that a war is going on.

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago