06-04-2024, 07:43 PM
(06-04-2024, 06:49 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Population of Manhattan is somewhere around 1.6 million people. Which is over 5 times the population of my city Cincinnati.
When the defense is. Well our guy is such a well known scumbag you won’t be able to find 12 jurors who can be fair out of our 1.6 million people.
Does that say more about the city or the guy?
The cognitive dissonance on this board never fails to impress. We have constant conversations about the ability of professional jurists to remain politically impartial. Every thread on a SCOTUS decision has one side or the other lambasting certain justices for being partisan actors. Yet you think among residents of a county in which 86.8% of residents voted for Biden over Trump that you can find twelve impartial, amateur jury members who will completely discount their partisan leanings and judge a case based solely on its merits?
Just so we're clear, professional judges are not capable of being impartial, but twelve rando's from Manhattan definitely are?
Source for election results.
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/new-york/
