SavannahMann
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I disagree. You are asked to be a juror, the protests and riots were very much in the open. You are in their town breathing their air. Do you actually expect me to believe that you would vote to acquit if you really believed that after the testimony, he was not guilty of anything?
Nobody wants to live the next several months if not the next few years with a target on their back. Especially with covid, people are yearning to go out and freely be part of society without fear. Even if you didn't care about yourself as much, certainly you'd have to worry about family members living in the area.
Move it far away to a different location, and if those jurors not under threat found him guilty of anything, at least we could all be convinced it was a fair and constitutional trial.
But wouldn’t those jurors be equally frightened? When bus loads of protestors showed up and were audible inside the courtroom just outside? Wouldn’t that fear be greater when there are more protestors than townspeople? When the National Guard has to be called in to build a perimeter around the courthouse?