BREAKING: Menendez Jury was deadlocked 10-2 for acquittal

[brooklynite]

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[VMA131Marine]

1. My guess is no retrial based on that

It's not like there was one holdout for acquittal that a new trial would overcome.

[OnDoutside]

2. Me too. Good news on an otherwise poor day.

[Orangepeel]

3. Acquittal needs to be unanimous?

Huh.

[brooklynite]

7. ANY Jury decision needs to be unanimous (except in some Civil Courts)

[Gothmog]

4. This was a weak case

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Esp in view of the Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling

Now, if there's a retrial and Menendez is found guilty, a Dem gov will be in place and will appoint the replacement. No political gain to be had.

[MattP]

6. They will retry after he gets nominated for senate

[VMA131Marine]

8. Not with a majority for acquittal

if it was 10-2 for conviction you could count on a retrial.

[SaschaHM]

9. Any Nj Duers w/ an ear to the ground that know how this played in the state?

Is Menendez going cruise to re-election on anti-Trump sentiment and the blue tilt? Is this acquittal being looked at/treated as a redemption?

[crazycatlady]

10. I'm not sure how it is going to play out

Obviously last week we were more worried about it as we didn't want Chris Christie (who already fucked up the late Frank Lautenberg's senate seat) or Kim Guadagno to get their hands on the seat. But after Phil Murphy's victory last week, I'm less worried.

NJ is a very machine oriented state and the county party line (ie Monmouth County Democrats) on the primary ballot is the be all end all. If he does step down, his replacement will need quite a few (out of 21) county lines to be competitive in the primary.

Should he step down, we have a deep bench as there are very few statewide elected offices in NJ.

[Sharpshooter007]

11. Interesting to note that Menendez has a postive net approval in NJ.

Despite all this.

[TrollBuster9090]

12. And I guarantee that FUX NEWS will report that the jury was "divided."

Just like 99.999% of climate scientists are convinced that climate change is real, and caused by the burning of fossil fuels, and the 0.001% of climate scientists who work for Koch-funded 'think tanks' are NOT convinced.

OPINION IS DIVIDED!