07-17-2017, 10:45 AM
(07-16-2017, 11:13 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I am not sure how I feel about a judge single-handedly throwing out a jury's decision.
The legal argument would be that the jury was given inaccurate information or instructions. The crux being that the prosecution misrepresented the facts of the case or law. Of course, that kind of argument should be made by defense counsel. Not sure how it's the prosecutions fault that the defense failed to do their job.
Quote:She's yelling things like "this man is evil, pure evil" while being removed, and her buddies are there in KKK outfits... and the judge says "oh, we need a retrial because the jury doesn't know better"? Sounds like a judicial overreach to me.
Judges are human, and thus susceptible to standard human failings. She wasn't charged with laughing, the laughing is what got her booted from the hearing. She was charged for the scene she made after she was booted. This case does jive well with the theme of the past year or so though, if you don't like the results of the first trial/election then just throw all your efforts into delegitimatizing the result you don't like and try, try again. You see it here, with Trump and with Brexit.
