YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoThe potential blunder in Trump's Manhattan trialwww.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down13
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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoIt would result in a hung jury and a mistrial. Which would likely result in retrial, not letting trump off the hook. (It is possible the judge lets it drop? But unlikely.)
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 months agoProblem is that retrials vastly favor the defendant, because now they have the prosecutors arguments as well as the evidence and it becomes easier to tailor the defense.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoMeh. There’s not much in the way of a real defense- that’s kind of Trump’s problem. they have him basically stone-cold.
It would result in a hung jury and a mistrial.
Which would likely result in retrial, not letting trump off the hook. (It is possible the judge lets it drop? But unlikely.)
Problem is that retrials vastly favor the defendant, because now they have the prosecutors arguments as well as the evidence and it becomes easier to tailor the defense.
Meh. There’s not much in the way of a real defense- that’s kind of Trump’s problem. they have him basically stone-cold.
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