Jurors Refuse to Convict Homicide Defendant to Avoid Sending a “Young Black Man” to Life in Prison - Look at the Perp's Empty Eyes - How many more will he kill now? Stupid Fucking Liberals

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[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Murder is the new black privilege.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This kind of thing happens all the time.

It's usually more because the defence lays it on thick about how terrible the sentence will be for the poor criminal and the jury feels guilty and doesn't want it on their conscience.

My aunt did this in the first trial she was on. They made them feel really guilty for the young Asian rapist, how it would ruin his whole life to go to prison, so they found him innocent when they all thought he'd done it. They were all feeling smug about themselves and how they were so superior and wise for giving this young man a second chance. They sat there waiting for him to be relieved by the verdict and walk out to his freedom. No, he was put in handcuffs and lead away to serve time for all the other rapes he'd already been coincided of and they all felt pretty stupid.

Since then whenever my aunt has been on a jury she's always pushed for guilty because she can no long trust what she hears from the defence.

Really arguing a sentence will ruin a defendant's life should be banned. Either they are guilty or not and punishment is suppose to upset a law breaker's life.

[–]FediNetizen 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

This is called jury nullification, and if any of you paid attention in history class, you'll know this is far from the first time that a jury has declined to convict because they felt the punishment for a guilty verdict was too harsh. Actually, that history goes back to at least the 1600s.

Despite what the title of this "Big League Politics" article is trying to imply, they didn't decline to convict because of his race. They declined to convict because they extenuating circumstances surrounding the case would have suggested a lighter punishment than the law allows for. Hence the jury nullification.

[–]Node 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

“I don’t want to send a young Black male to jail for the rest of their life or have him get the death sentence,’” the foreperson has quoted of the jurors who opposed a murder conviction

Do you have other evidence?

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

If only Uncle Ruckus was not fictional. Uncle Ruckus - That Nigger is Guilty

[–]Prathet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Politicians are worse, so whatever.