If you can get any white people on a jury. IIRC Penny isn't even from NY which is why he is white. A jury in NYC ain't gonna be largely white. I think they will try to get the venue moved, but I don't know if it's going to work.
While, in theory, a single refusing juror can hang a jury, that's not the same as an acquittal in a case like this. They also have to be pretty tough to stand up from a lot of threats from a judge and prosecutor. Those are all false threats, but you have to know that. They will tell you that it's illegal to use your own judgement and that you have to explain yourself and negotiate the facts with the other jurors. You don't, actually. But they try to not let people on juries who know that.
Nobody ever calls me for jury duty. I can play dumb really well, and then I would just get in there and refuse to convict for any crimes I think are bullshit or any people I think are innocent.
If they're going to exploit the whole "Jury of your peers" for the purposes of jury nullification then hwyte people should as well.
I hope Daniel Penny's lawyers are smart enough to see that.
If you can get any white people on a jury. IIRC Penny isn't even from NY which is why he is white. A jury in NYC ain't gonna be largely white. I think they will try to get the venue moved, but I don't know if it's going to work.
While, in theory, a single refusing juror can hang a jury, that's not the same as an acquittal in a case like this. They also have to be pretty tough to stand up from a lot of threats from a judge and prosecutor. Those are all false threats, but you have to know that. They will tell you that it's illegal to use your own judgement and that you have to explain yourself and negotiate the facts with the other jurors. You don't, actually. But they try to not let people on juries who know that.
Nobody ever calls me for jury duty. I can play dumb really well, and then I would just get in there and refuse to convict for any crimes I think are bullshit or any people I think are innocent.