RE: Senate Trial has started.
February 14, 2021 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2021 at 4:05 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(February 14, 2021 at 9:11 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(February 14, 2021 at 4:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Actually, the 'odds' are just the opposite. While political affiliation doesn't de jure prevent someone sitting on a jury, it absolutely de facto does. The odds of finding a Trump-sympathizing juror in DC are about 18 to 1 against.
Of course, his lawyers could argue that Trump can't get a fair trial in DC, but this would put them in the charmingly embarrassing position of having to admit that the DC vote was valid.
Boru
How do you figure that?
It's like a black man trying to get a fair trial in Klan country.....
How does that "admit the vote is valid"?
Prejudice against the defendant by the jury pool is exactly why they have change of venue....
I should have clearer - by ‘DC’ vote, I meant the presidential election (my badski). Almost 94% of DC voters went for Biden, which is going to make it all but impossible to get a Trump sympathizer on a DC jury. Given that, his defense lawyers could make a case for a change of venue.
But Trump and his acolytes claimed and continue to claim the election was rigged - Trump went so far as to claim, ‘I won every state’ (for electoral college purposes, DC is considered a state). If his lawyers stick to that claim, they’ve got no grounds for change of venue, since they can’t claim overwhelming opposition to Trump. If they ask for change of venue because they claim that they can’t seat an impartial jury, it’s a tacit admission that the election WASN’T rigged, which is going to make their client very unhappy.
Boru
