• Mikina@programming.dev
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    12 days ago

    I admit I’m kinda disappointed. He pulled out almost perfect assassination that looked well thought out, managed to get away with only a few hickups in his plan as far as his face is considered, and then walks around with a murder weapon and a manifesto in his bag? Shame, really. All he needed was to lay low for a while, grow a beard and he’d probably be OK.

    • DrFistington@lemmings.world
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      12 days ago

      Don’t be disappointed. I guessed he was going to do this, and for good reason. His options were to either, live a life in fear, worrying that one day he would be caught, or, to basically give him self up, and elect for a Jury trial. Jury nullification is one os the most powerful tools available to the average, non-rich american. If he goes through the trial and gets acquited (which only takes 1 juror), then hes a free man, a folk hero, and he sets the precident that killing rich murderers isn’t an automatic crime.

      What he’s doing is the smartest available option, please donate to his legal defense fund.

      • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        12 days ago

        and gets acquited (which only takes 1 juror)

        Unfortunately this is not true. 1 juror alone can hang the jury, but they’d have to convince all the other jurors to actually render a verdict of not guilty to avoid a mistrial

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          11 days ago

          Have you ever been on a jury? In my experience it’s 2-4 strong personalities and a bunch of people confused by lawyer speak (because two confident authority figures are telling them to believe e two different things and they can’t reconcile the contradiction) and people who just want to go home and thus go along with the strong personalities.

          • Rogue@feddit.uk
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            11 days ago

            Isn’t it always said that jurys are made up of people not smart enough to get out of jury duty.

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              10 days ago

              Some jobs give you your work day wage for jury duty as a benefit. Why not go? Get paid by work to take a break from work and watch live court drama.

              There’s value in knowing how it works.

              If your job doesn’t pay you, the $15/day, or whatever ridiculous amount, won’t pay your bills so yes, get out of it.

          • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            11 days ago

            … Right, so therefore

            1 juror alone can hang the jury, but they’d have to convince all the other jurors to actually render a verdict of not guilty to avoid a mistrial

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      12 days ago

      I almost want to believe this guy saw how similar he was to the photos and how famous the shooter was getting and decided to take the fall by wandering around in public with some incriminating circumstantial evidence until someone reported him so he could take the credit.

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      12 days ago

      You don’t understand.

      The fact that he wrote a manifesto meant he wanted to get caught. The taking the murder weapon and the manifesto to the McDonald’s was his way of saying he had gotten bored waiting for the cops to catch him. He pretty much turned himself in.

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
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      11 days ago

      I think this is why there’s a common narrative on the internet that this “evidence” was planted to frame a random dude.

      It’s fair to call that a conspiracy theory at this point, but hopefully due process will reveal the truth.