The first case that will be heard among the five that Donald Trump faces will be on Oct. 2, 2023, in Manhattan. But it won't be before a jury. NBC News reported this weekend about the length of the upcoming Trump trials. But buried in the report was the revelation that Trump's lawyers checked the bo...
Well this is interesting. Seems Trump’s previous attorney now relegated to second rate PR flack Alina Habba checked the wrong box on a form related to the New York trial, so Trump is getting a bench trial instead of a jury.
Good. Maybe that’ll speed things along so they can put the Cheeto chimp in jail.
Do we feel better about one person deciding Trumps guilt or 12?
It sounds like one person is already deciding Trump’s guilt (or non-guilt, as it were), so I’d rather it be a judge than some random juror.
It seems far more likely to me that one person refused to charge Trump, than to believe that multiple people thought he was guilty of every charge but one and differed on which that one charge was.
I would absolutely bet good money that that is exactly the case.
The judge in this case is absolutely fed up with Trump’s bullshit. I think he might be in trouble. He might actually lose his NY properties.
With a jury of 12 people, you could still have 1 person decide Trump’s guilt. Say the trial ends and the jury goes to deliberate. 11 people say he’s guilty. 1 guy says Not Guilty and refuses to budge no matter what. That one holdout could decide whether or not Trump is found guilty - even if it’s because the holdout is a hardcore MAGA fan that got onto the jury.
Those jury selection hearings would’ve been entertaining though. With the attorneys trying to quickly sort out who is a maggot and who isn’t and squabbling over it.
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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