There are times when it is fair to laugh, so it is with the recent Supreme Court decision below from NOLA.COM.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that juries across the nation must be unanimous to convict or acquit a criminal defendant, outlawing the split verdicts that had persisted in Louisiana since openly racist lawmakers enshrined them in the state Constitution during the Jim Crow era.
In a 6-3 decision that crossed ideological lines, the high court ruled that the Sixth Amendment’s right to a jury trial implicitly requires a unanimous verdict, and that the previously acknowledged need for jury consensus in federal courtrooms applies equally to state courts through the 14th Amendment.Yes yes, I know. In an open and shut legal argument based on nothing less and nothing more than our Constitution and legal precedent, 9 jurists reached different conclusions about 'split decisions' by people swept off the street and out of business offices and forced to ADJUDICATE the law. If the whole bunch don't buy the legal arguments of the State, the Government or the type of people who bring civil lawsuits, the case MUST BE THROWN OUT and this was decided by a SPLIT decision at the Supreme Court. Ever notice how nobody ever refers to them as supremacists?
Well, there we have it, the permanent 'stay out of jail' card for BLM types and bleeding hearts and stupid dumb assholes who cannot decide if they want a red candy or a green candy and dither about it for a couple of weeks before tossing their hands up and swearing that they're sticking to brown candy now and forever! If you thought reaching consensus on a truly open and shut case, smoking gun case was hard before? Just wait. You aint seen nothing yet. All that lawyer has to do is get one truly American stupid moron on the jury who will swear black is white and die before he or she can be disabused of the idiocy and that's it. NOT GUILTY.
I imagine all the oxygen thieves reading the NYT are shocked that President Trump will so escape the justice they believe his actions have so merited when he steps down after 8 years as our president. My heart bleeds for them, not.
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"...get one truly American stupid moron on the jury who will swear black is white and die before he or she can be disabused of the idiocy and that's it. NOT GUILTY."
Er, no. It means a HUNG JURY. That's neither guilty or not guilty. The case can be retried, but that's up to the states attorney. And that's the way it already is in the vast majority of other states.
I am more afraid of the one truly American stupid moron on the jury who will die before he or she can be disabused of the notion that the cops arrested him therefore he must be GUILTY.
I'm afraid that is the way I've seen justice trending in these times. Arrested by cops almost automatically proves guilt. Then we have the criminal farce of Roger Stone being arrested on film at dawn....
seriously, it is good to see the supremes uphold the constitution as written instead of making it up as we go. I consider it a good thing. now, moving on too those pesky second amendment cases and property rights cases in the backlog...
I will note the constant surprise of journalists that the SCOTUS has decisions that cross ideological lines. They actually have a fair number of them. There are a few hot-button issues where each wing rules as a group, but there actually is a fair bit of variety.
For which I remain always, deeply thankful. We all partake of the law and it is somewhat just that we share a common understanding of it. Too many people are ignorant of both civics and the law.
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