With former President Donald Trump convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records this week, his furious supporters are trying to expose the identities of the people who did it.According to NBC News, "Advance Democracy, a non-profit that conducts public interest research, said there ha...
Its already too late for them. The idea would be to scare future jurors. Its not like hell only face one jury.
Anyone calling for doxxing should be tracked down and arrested like the terrorist they are.
Cannot extra precautions be taken such as the jury connecting via video-conferencing from another room, with only the judge being able to see the screen?
Then they get a judge like Cannon.
The problem is that the system also is of two minds on whether he’s above the law. Shit’s broken, and not because they can’t fix it. If this happened in e.g. Germany, Trump would already be behind bars (long before he’d have run for pres in the first place), and GSG9 would be looking for people terrorizing juries.
For jurors, seeing the defendant and witnesses live in person is part of the process. They assess body language as well as other things. Video link is helpful as a back up in certaain cases, eg for kids or victims of sexual assault who may be uncomfortable being in the room with their alleged attacker.
Isn’t it wild that it’s even considered dangerous to be a juror for an ex president. Yet some of his non violent followers still dont appreciate how damaging he is for democracy.