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Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"
(www.newsweek.com)
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careful, lw mods don't like that
It was clarified that talking about Jury Nullification in the context of future crime is a no-no because it's a no-no in the country lw is based. But in the context of already committed crime it's fine.
So "Go ahead and commit the crime and we'll do jury nullification!" Is bad, but "Crime was committed, but we sympathize with the motive/person/whatever so let's do jury nullification !" Is OK
The whole thing sounded to me like a smokescreen for, "We fucked up, and we shouldn't have banned talking about it in the first place. We talked about it and banning it was a bad decision that we briefly doubled down on."
Credit to them for reversing themselves, I guess. That said, coming up with contrived explanations for why you never made a mistake in the first place, because you're always right, is one of the telltale signs of being full of shit. You can just tell people the main explanation. They'll actually respect you more, not less, if you don't engineer your reasonings to maintain this Wizard of Oz veneer.
I mean... Yeah.
You’re not allowed to talk about smokescreens before the act of fucking up.