• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    There were 24,849 homicides in 2022.

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

    Almost none of them, if any, likely required a nationwide manhunt.

    Not one of them required an escort of 30 police officers plus a helicopter to the courtroom.

    As far as I can tell, none of them were charged with terrorism.

    And now he’s getting as biased a judge as he could possibly get.

    If we’re going to start charging murderers with terrorism, let’s start with the cops.

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    you people clearly don’t know what you are talking about. “conflict of interest” only happens if it conflicts the interests of billionaires

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    I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn’t think they’d be this obvious about it.

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      The justice system probably assigned the judge randomly. It’s just finding a judge without wealth is impossible … which in and of itself is a problem.

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    Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.

    I need the bootlickers to show up and tell me it’s just coincidence.

    The whole damn thing is a show. They are terrified. The book they usually play by isn’t working. What will happen? The amount of support Luigi has is astounding. It’s even a topic I tested the waters with at work and these people I work with make a decent living.

    America is waking up. I feel it.

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      I genuinely think that they’ll have a hard time finding an impartial jury… I think that at this point, pretty much anyone who doesn’t live under a rock has heard of him and has an opinion on whether he should be found guilty.

      Regardless of which way you fall on that particular topic, you’re biased, and that would exclude you from serving on the jury.

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        I thought the same thing about the Trump trial, but they legitimately turned over rocks and found the most oblivious Americans living under them. There are evidently tons of people out there living in their own little bubble, completely untethered from the news media or even just casual conversations with strangers and probably have no idea who Luigi is right now. The news might not be able to reach them, but a jury summons from the state can, and the prosecution is going to hunt for these individuals specifically.

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          An unfavorable view is still bias. The defense would reject any juror that shows significant malice towards the plaintiff.

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        I’ve spoken with friends about this is Denmark, and we all read the news with great pleasure.

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        Correct. And I strongly suspect they are wildly pumping out news about him to narrow the juror pool to people who do live under rocks.

        The other option is that jurors lie about their bias, which opens them up for legal consequences.

        His defense, in any case, has a very difficult task - they need to be able to somehow communicate him being innocent against stacked charges OR paint him light that the rest of us see that leans them towards Jury Nullification.

        My hope is that potential jurors hide their bias, which isn’t easy, but gives him the best chance.

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          If they can find an “unbiased” jury, then the defense does indeed have a difficult challenge ahead. Even if the prosecution fails with their terrorism charge, they can fall back on murder 2, which is much harder to defend against.

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        That’s literally what it’s taken in the past. It took the fear of communism to really get unionization accepted in the US. In other eras it’s taken the threat of invasion by external powers.

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    “conflict of interest” was old speak from the dark ages.

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    Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance

    Health insurance industry: we can make it worse

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          It’s a pharmaceutical company. They’re no saints, but it’s disingenuous to compare them to people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp.

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            Did everyone forget about scumbag Martin Shkreli who raised medication prices for no reason other than he wanted more money?

            “In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price to insurance companies from $13.50 to $750.00 (USD) per pill.”

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    This is the sort of thing judges are supposed to recuse themselves over.

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      They haven’t been since they got raked from COVID-19 and shutdowns tanking their stocks in 2020. So they price gouge with inflation and shrinkflation, keep prices high to make up the difference and fuck us over. Then they keep the prices artificially high, raising prices on entertainment, force people back to the office, and use those as talking points to tank democrat campaigns.

      They’ve been openly at war for the last 5-years or so. Just like Gaza, you can only trap people in misery for so long before they lose just enough to make it worth fighting back with violence. We’re on the cusp of that backlash and I have a feeling the next 4+ years are gonna see the blowup.