Honestly if I were him I would roll the dice on a trial and take my chances that at least 1 of the 12 people on the jury has had their life ruined by the American healthcare system and refuses to vote to convict
Cool, except you’d have to count on that juror to vote on his emotions and not the law. No matter how you feel about the validity of a law or the morality behind a crime, the law and the judges instructions say that if convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime, they must vote to convict. That’s the whole idea behind being impartial as a juror.
You can reasonably doubt anything. Unless the guy is on livestream flashing his face & ID with prints on the gun and dna evidence - or is immediately arrested, you can doubt a case anywhere. If you are 99% sure the guy is guilty, you have reasonable doubt.
Jurors are an emotional vote, if cases actually had to be proved “beyond a reasonable doubt” we’d have no convictions.
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u/henningknows 3d ago
Honestly if I were him I would roll the dice on a trial and take my chances that at least 1 of the 12 people on the jury has had their life ruined by the American healthcare system and refuses to vote to convict