• Deadeyegai@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I mean they say this is the guy they’re looking for…but is it?? I don’t recognize him at all. Also he doesn’t seem to have that fancy backpack in between pictures. This leads me to believe that these are 2 separate dudes. Clothing colors are also different.

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        5 months ago

        To the people of New York:

        We have a responsibility as citizens to respect our civic duty to justice. You may be selected for a jury to try a suspect for this murder. It may be the one responsible, it may be a scapegoat. In either case, after the judicial proceedings, you will be asked to assent to a verdict. On that day, you will be required to ensure justice is served. On that day, remember just two words: jury nullification.

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          5 months ago

          I’ll admit, you had me in the first half.

          For anyone genuinely considering jury nullification, it’s also probably not a good idea to bring it up before deliberation. Lawyers typically try to get jurors dismissed when they’re aware that it’s actually an option.

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              Interestingly, just due to the inclination of the executive branch to “get a conviction” fast, at any cost, it’s actually pretty likely that is in fact “the wrong guy”. The investigators will be under pressure to find someone, and will use available technology in an absolutely, horrendously wrong way just to get a “result” and use that as a justification to accuse random unlucky people. Of course, anyone with deeper knowledge of involved technology would know that, but they’re not working for the ill educated LE operators.

              All something to consider when potentially ruining someone’s life because some dumb fuckers got an innocent joe as the wrong person because they deformed under pressure and couldn’t successfully do their job. Happens way too often

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                  Lol that movie is not legal advice.

                  Not what I meant.

                  You were going on about carefully convincing other people to vote not guilty and all I could think about was the process of persuasion that slowly flipped the jury in that movie.

                  Everyone needed something different for them to consider, then actually believe, that the defendant might be innocent.

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          5 months ago

          Lemmy.world amended their TOS to ban people for promoting Jury Nullification.

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        5 months ago

        I mean there’s a million eyes on them, they’re either gonna get the right or the whole DA is gonna be in a world of shit.

        If it comes out they intentionally framed someone cause they couldn’t find the right guy, there’s no way this won’t come out. Already disregarding the heightened likelyhood on jury nullification and general unwillingness for the public to cooperate.

        There’s so many news stations in proximity and so many people who’d speak out in a nanosecond, they can’t even get to fuck around before they find out.

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        Also the guy on the bottom has cheekbones for days. Guy on the top is less defined. Can’t be the same person.

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      5 months ago

      He was likely in New York for days before the shooting. Presumably not wearing the same clothes the whole time.