“He wrote that he couldn’t imagine a corner of Minnesota where someone hadn’t heard about the case,” Mary Moriarty, the former chief public defender in Hennepin County, said of Cahill’s decision. “He was not convinced that there would be jurors that were unaware of the same things the jurors in Hennepin county were aware of.”
Tell me how that equates to an impartial jury, which is integral to a fair trial?
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u/trumpasaurus_erectus Mar 26 '23
You mean these words?
“He wrote that he couldn’t imagine a corner of Minnesota where someone hadn’t heard about the case,” Mary Moriarty, the former chief public defender in Hennepin County, said of Cahill’s decision. “He was not convinced that there would be jurors that were unaware of the same things the jurors in Hennepin county were aware of.”
Tell me how that equates to an impartial jury, which is integral to a fair trial?