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bluestarone

(17,091 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2020, 09:10 PM Jan 2020

With all the evidence aginst tRUMP He would be found GUILTY in 10 of 10 court cases BUT

Innocent in the senate. Make the RETHUGS proud!

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With all the evidence aginst tRUMP He would be found GUILTY in 10 of 10 court cases BUT (Original Post) bluestarone Jan 2020 OP

Jury nullification keithbvadu2 Jan 2020 #1

Jury nullification is appropriate in impeachment Cicada Jan 2020 #2

keithbvadu2

(36,980 posts)

1. Jury nullification

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Fri Jan 17, 2020, 09:47 PM

Jan 2020

Jury nullification

Cicada

(4,533 posts)

2. Jury nullification is appropriate in impeachment

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Fri Jan 17, 2020, 09:52 PM

Jan 2020

Criminal prosecution differs from impeachment and removal. A juror supposedly should not rule on the basis of thinking murder should not be punished. But it is ok for a Senator to rule because she thinks speeding is not impeachable. So the two are not exactly comparable.

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