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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have been hearing, 'Hard to imagine that the jury will acquit on all counts'
It is not comforting to hear, it is hard to imagine....
I AM LIVING IN A HARD TO IMAGINE WORLD....
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Considering the voluminous evidence put on by the government and the defense's refusal to put on a case, there could be a juror overwhelmed by it all who doesn't vote to convict. But it is indeed hard to imagine that all 12 jurors will vote not guilty and that Manafort walks away free. If there is a hung jury, the government can bring the case to trial again.
Chickensoup
(650 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Both have since pleaded guilty.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Paul Manafort is a person with no influence or impact on your life.
Explain the difference, to you or anyone else, between (a) a world in which Manafort is convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud, and (b) a world in which Manafort is not convicted of those things.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...then Id suggest there is a whole lot of daily injustice which is passing you by.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)That justice will prevail....
And that it is not hard to imagine ...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)Absolutely
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)multi count charges, you systematically go thru the charges from the easy "guilty" ones first to the more complex charges last. The prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt on several of the lessor charges. Takes time to go thru the others and sometimes take a few dozen votes to come to a conclusion.
3Hotdogs
(12,456 posts)Also hard to imagine the assholes taking over the Oregon wildlife preserve getting off, not guilty. But they did.
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Donald Trump is President. Fox News is the most popular news in America for the past 20 years. The Republican party conspired with Russia (RUSSIA!) to steal 2016 election. Rudy Giuliani, Trumps lawyer, is on TV daily saying such sh*t that can not be believed.
So yes. HELL YES, acquittal is possible.