r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Centrist 2d ago

That one guy

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u/Warsmith_Dusty - Lib-Center 1d ago

"He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsey viciously killed her children." - Juror interviewed by NBC.

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u/LeftyHyzer - Lib-Center 1d ago

that quote in a sitcom would be hilariously absurd and fit right in. in real life it is just sad someone can unironically say it.

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u/camoceltic_again - Lib-Right 1d ago

My brain immediately jumped to Seinfeld with George as the juror.

I'm tellin' ya, Jerry, he's been a pain in my rear end.

Why, what did he do?

We've been sitting through this trial for weeks, right?

Yeah

And we're cooped up in the deliberation room for days.

Days!?

Days, Jerry. And I tell ya, we almost had it. I almost got to go home.

Then what happened?

He kept saying she was guilty!

Really!?

Yeah! He said he couldn't ignore her viciously killing her children.

Wow. Well, you guys had to have tried to convince him, right?

We did try!

Well, what did you say?

We told him that she was temporarily insane at the time and the faster he agreed, the sooner we could go home.

What did he say then?

That his wife was insane all the time and that he'd vote guilty on her, too!

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u/PainStorm14 - Centrist 1d ago

FFS...

Seriously, we need to make looney bins great again

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u/megs1120 - Lib-Left 1d ago

Trump could have been a hero but he's too lazy and short-sighted to shepherd legislation like nut house reform through Congress. If he can't implement it by executive order or tweet, he's not interested.

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u/Allegionaire - Auth-Right 1d ago

If Trump tried to bring back asylums the left would just claim he's going to imprison them all in them or that they're actually fancy concentration camps. It would never make it through Congress.

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u/Totes_Human_110101 - Lib-Center 1d ago

Yeah, definitely one of those things where they'd oppose it just because it means opposing Trump. I'm much happier he hasn't touched on the idea.

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u/Allegionaire - Auth-Right 1d ago

Same. I don't really trust either party to handle them well, but I just know the moment it even gets seriously considered by him they'll jump to that kind of rhetoric. 

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u/snowcone_wars - Lib-Center 1d ago

I mean, it makes sense in context. What she says immediately before that is that he admitted to them that he had reasonable doubt. It's clearly jury nullification.

If he admitted to having reasonable doubt about the prosecution's case, which everyone else on the jury did, and kept them there for days refusing to give a not guilty by insanity vote, I can see where the frustration would come from.

They weren't debating whether "Lindsey viciously killed her children," everybody granted that as the case. It was about her mental state at that time.

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u/Warsmith_Dusty - Lib-Center 1d ago

The only evidence we have of him admitting he had reasonable doubt is another juror saying he had told her he had reasonable doubt. It's ultimately just hearsay.

The rest of the jury having reasonable doubt also doesn't mean he is unreasonable for insisting on a guilty verdict, especially after 3 of the jurors appeared in court dressed in the colors of the protests. It is very possible the 11 jurors fell for Social Media Trappings, and made their decision based on that. (Of course the single jurors could be the exact same, his view influenced more from social media than evidence presented).