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2021-05-04 -Great Cultural Revolution
Juror in Chauvin Trial Makes Potentially Problematic Statements on Morning Show
[REDSTATE] There are questions now being raised about Juror #52 in the Derek Chauvin trial, reportedly Brandon Mitchell.

Mitchell has now come forward and given interviews on several shows.

Speaking to the "Get Up! Mornings" show with Erica Campbell on April 27, Mitchell spoke about his experience on the jury. During the interview, Campbell said that many people aren’t all that eager to do jury duty. She asked him about what message he would leave people about "saying yes to jury duty?"

That’s when Mitchell said something that could be problematic and potentially raise an issue on appeal.

"I mean it’s important if we wanna see some change, we wanna see some things going different, we gotta get out there, get out into these avenues, get into these rooms to try to spark some change," he said. "Jury duty is one of those things. Jury duty. Voting. All of those things we gotta do."

Now that’s obviously problematic because you’re not supposed to be sitting on a jury to "spark some change." You’re only supposed to be deciding guilty or not guilty based solely on the facts and evidence presented in the case, nothing else. Not whatever societal change that you may think needs to happen.

Mitchell also said while being questioned during jury selection that he recognized this case was "historic."
Posted by Fred 2021-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Like a bad imitation of a Tom Wolfe novel

What a joke this nation is becoming. A sad, sick joke
Posted by Whereth Threating8807 2021-05-04 01:30||   2021-05-04 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Sadly, I am under no illusions for this. The trial, verdict, and all the other impedimenta could be overturned, and the Feds will be waiting to bust Chauvin on whatever civil rights charges they can come up with. He's not got any chance of avoiding anything.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-04 06:02||   2021-05-04 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 

I am guessing most of us feel the conviction was
NOT BASED ON EVIDENCE.

But preordained to avoid a riot, promote a political agebda and to appease a media incited Black community seeking blood for a drug dealer caught that swallowed his dope trying to avoid prison.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-05-04 06:13||   2021-05-04 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 jurors are not the only people afraid of 'peaceful' riots. Chief justice roberts is too.
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-05-04 07:51||   2021-05-04 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 This is literally mob rule. They've taken over our politics, intimidated voters and captured election officials, cowed our judges, ensured our media and even our president repeat their Big Lies about "systemic racism" and "white supremacy,"

When will decent, intelligent, non-masochistic Americans stop being doormats and start beating back this mob?
Posted by Sheba Omeper3983 2021-05-04 08:30||   2021-05-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 I am guessing most of us feel the conviction was
NOT BASED ON EVIDENCE.

Not evidence or logic, either.

Riddle me this: How can a man on this earth possibly be guilty, at one and the same time, of unintentionally killing AND intentional killing?

Not even the Stalinist show trials perpetrated such an idiocy as charging their class enemies with both manslaughter and murder.

But an American court just convicted a man of these two mutually-exclusive charges.

The Inquisition was more scrupulous. Medieval trial by ordeal had more logic.

We are the world's laughingstock now.
Posted by Omise Noodleman4634 2021-05-04 08:36||   2021-05-04 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7  It's Wakandan justice. Dawning slowly in America. How is this a juror and the trial not a mistrial?

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-04 09:55||   2021-05-04 09:55|| Front Page Top

#8 For some reason Problematic doesn't seem to quite fit Lying to Fix a Political Show Trial.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-04 17:24||   2021-05-04 17:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Chauvin's attorney filed for a new trial today citing the various problems noted above but not the issue of juror 52 or US Rep Waters.
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-05-04 19:30||   2021-05-04 19:30|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ including the total absurdity of trying a man on two mutually-exclusive counts?
Posted by Spike Peacock2773 2021-05-04 20:19||   2021-05-04 20:19|| Front Page Top

#11 It was not a trial so much as a human sacrifice. Sorry, dude. It's your turn in the volcano.
Posted by SteveS 2021-05-04 20:59||   2021-05-04 20:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Lady Ann Coulter said it best:

"In the darkest days of Jim Crow, the entire country never ganged up on a single individual like this.

"Please, gods of wokeness, we ask that his human sacrifice be acceptable! Throw another virgin into the volcano."
Posted by Chert Prince of the Pixies5538 2021-05-04 21:05||   2021-05-04 21:05|| Front Page Top

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