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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 11 points 59 minutes ago

Land of the fee.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

There were 24,849 homicides in 2022.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Almost none of them, if any, likely required a nationwide manhunt.

Not one of them required an escort of 30 police officers plus a helicopter to the courtroom.

As far as I can tell, none of them were charged with terrorism.

And now he's getting as biased a judge as he could possibly get.

If we're going to start charging murderers with terrorism, let's start with the cops.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Kill her husband? Send a message?

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 116 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn't think they'd be this obvious about it.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 38 points 7 hours ago

The justice system probably assigned the judge randomly. It's just finding a judge without wealth is impossible ... which in and of itself is a problem.

[–] poo@lemmy.world 86 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Rich people being shot means nature is healing ❤️

[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 117 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That’s definitely a conflict of interest.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 67 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I'm sure the judge will recuse themselves to avoid any appearance of impropriety... ^/s^

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 35 minutes ago

As Clarence Thomas has proved.

(Sack of shit.)

[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 19 points 9 hours ago

As judges always do…

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 141 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.

I need the bootlickers to show up and tell me it's just coincidence.

The whole damn thing is a show. They are terrified. The book they usually play by isn't working. What will happen? The amount of support Luigi has is astounding. It's even a topic I tested the waters with at work and these people I work with make a decent living.

America is waking up. I feel it.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I genuinely think that they'll have a hard time finding an impartial jury.... I think that at this point, pretty much anyone who doesn't live under a rock has heard of him and has an opinion on whether he should be found guilty.

Regardless of which way you fall on that particular topic, you're biased, and that would exclude you from serving on the jury.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

I thought the same thing about the Trump trial, but they legitimately turned over rocks and found the most oblivious Americans living under them. There are evidently tons of people out there living in their own little bubble, completely untethered from the news media or even just casual conversations with strangers and probably have no idea who Luigi is right now. The news might not be able to reach them, but a jury summons from the state can, and the prosecution is going to hunt for these individuals specifically.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

The 65+ crowd view him unfavorably, so I expect the jury to be a bunch of 65+ people

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

An unfavorable view is still bias. The defense would reject any juror that shows significant malice towards the plaintiff.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

I've spoken with friends about this is Denmark, and we all read the news with great pleasure.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Correct. And I strongly suspect they are wildly pumping out news about him to narrow the juror pool to people who do live under rocks.

The other option is that jurors lie about their bias, which opens them up for legal consequences.

His defense, in any case, has a very difficult task - they need to be able to somehow communicate him being innocent against stacked charges OR paint him light that the rest of us see that leans them towards Jury Nullification.

My hope is that potential jurors hide their bias, which isn't easy, but gives him the best chance.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If they can find an "unbiased" jury, then the defense does indeed have a difficult challenge ahead. Even if the prosecution fails with their terrorism charge, they can fall back on murder 2, which is much harder to defend against.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 24 minutes ago

Oh, I already have a simple solution to that.

I ain't seen nothin in that video.

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 58 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 48 points 13 hours ago

That's literally what it's taken in the past. It took the fear of communism to really get unionization accepted in the US. In other eras it's taken the threat of invasion by external powers.

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 81 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"conflict of interest" was old speak from the dark ages.

[–] ovalofsand@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We are in the second Gilded Age

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

You're a pure soul... but you didn't say "God bless you" when I sneezed.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 91 points 15 hours ago

This is the sort of thing judges are supposed to recuse themselves over.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 339 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance

Health insurance industry: we can make it worse

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

outrage*

Also, not an insurance company. He worked for Pfizer.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Pfizer is a med company. They negotiate with insurance. They work together to fuck us over.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's a pharmaceutical company. They're no saints, but it's disingenuous to compare them to people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 17 points 6 hours ago

Did everyone forget about scumbag Martin Shkreli who raised medication prices for no reason other than he wanted more money?

"In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price to insurance companies from $13.50 to $750.00 (USD) per pill."

[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 160 points 17 hours ago

A certain fair and unbiased trial he's getting..../s

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 212 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They're certainly not being subtle with the class warfare

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

They haven't been since they got raked from COVID-19 and shutdowns tanking their stocks in 2020. So they price gouge with inflation and shrinkflation, keep prices high to make up the difference and fuck us over. Then they keep the prices artificially high, raising prices on entertainment, force people back to the office, and use those as talking points to tank democrat campaigns.

They've been openly at war for the last 5-years or so. Just like Gaza, you can only trap people in misery for so long before they lose just enough to make it worth fighting back with violence. We're on the cusp of that backlash and I have a feeling the next 4+ years are gonna see the blowup.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 64 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I would think it might be excusable if this were a straight-up murder charge, which is mostly facts and evidence based. However, if they're charging him with terrorism, which is much more subjective, doesn't that make this a serious conflict of interest?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago

No. It's inexcusable. Even if he pooped on her lawn she should have no right to be legally judging him.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 103 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Surely she’ll do the right thing and recuse herself from the case.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 37 points 15 hours ago

She won't, and don't call her Shirley!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 24 points 15 hours ago

Once against proving we have a two tiered justice system.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 64 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem like a conflict of interest /s

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