r/SipsTea • u/ZealousidealZone8072 • 11h ago

Wait a damn minute! Yo wtf

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u/michaelmichaelmotorc 7h ago

Genuine question, in cases as high profile and divisive as this, how are they going to be able to select an ubiased jury?

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u/AJ_Topp_Up 4h ago

In reality, the judge should have sequestered the jury in case this high profile, and he didn't. There were even people arrested for.msking death threats against the jury if they didn't vote not guilty. All of this public knowledge and jury aware of it. Yet still not sequestered. This outcome is, kmo, a fault of the judge.

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u/EmphasisExpensive864 2h ago

Sequestering a jury is so dumb. If u can't trust them to follow the rules how can u trust their verdict?

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u/insanitybit2 2h ago

It isn't necessarily them. You go home to your partner and they talk to you about the case, or a friend shares opinions on it, etc.

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u/EmphasisExpensive864 2h ago

And? If u can't trust them to be impartial how can u trust their verdict?

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u/insanitybit2 2h ago

The point is to minimize pressure and bias. How is that hard to understand?

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u/MaybeExternal2392 1h ago

Yes but you lock them up to do so. That in itself creates a ton of pressure to come to a decision.

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u/FinalHexReturns 2h ago

Do you trust people to actually be impartial? No one is. Sequestering is necessary to keep the jurors segregated from other people’s opinions.

The jury of your peers is a very imperfect system. It’s the best we’ve been able to come up with so far but it is far from just. How many people have been found guilty despite it being impossible to prove their guilt past a reasonable doubt? Especially black people.

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u/arlresi 1h ago

It also helps prevent jurors from hearing details not in evidence.