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[-] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 75 points 4 months ago

The best outcome of this situation is jury nullification. If the jury nullifies, we'll have proven the law does not prosecute heroic deeds of this caliber. It would be the biggest blow to capitalism in generations.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

"he who saves his country has committed no crimes"

i threw up in my mouth a bit quoting trump, but throwing their words back at them is always satisfying.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

If it makes you feel any better, Trump was quoting Napoleon.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

You can tell he was quoting someone else because the sentence makes grammatical sense

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

Everyone who fights the British is redeemable in some way, but no, that's not a whole lot better.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

The guy who tried to take over Europe was arrested and banished (to run a tropical island, so like most rich and powerful was given a super kushy "punishment" that's more like a forced retirement), returned and tried to take over Europe a second time and was banished again (this time to an actually unpleasant island off the coast of Africa under active guard) might not be the best person for trump to be quoting in this context...

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

During his banishment to Corsica, Napoleon fully modernized the island by updating and standardizing education, road building and performed other administrative duties in the government.

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 months ago

Trump stole it from a quote by Napoleon, allegedly, so... Not sure if that's better or worse, but at least it's not a Trump original.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

of course he's not smart enough to come up with a good quote himself, i should have known better

[-] Necroscope0@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

I have been shouting this from the rooftops since I heard what happened. So many people think you have to punish someone if they are proven guilty... not true in the USA. The jury can decide he is not guilty for whatever reason they want. They can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he did it and the jury can still let him go. So many people don't know this.

Also a great way to get out of jury duty is to mention this during the selection process, they will boot you 100% of the time if you know this.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

The problem is that if you try to get on a jury to do this then you're usually probably committing perjury. They typically ask questions somewhat related to it without outright using the phrase.

[-] Necroscope0@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Definitely true. I would perjure myself to get Luigi off the hook though. He is a hero not a criminal. He had the balls to kill that piece of shit, I can have the balls to tell a white lie to get him out.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Can we please stop assuming he did it?

[-] Xenny@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

He could get acquitted due to the nature of his arrest

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

thats why MSMs are so tight lipped about the case, even if nothings going on right now, they arnt say sht in order to "bias" people into believing otherwise.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There is no such thing as jury nullification as a court decision though. Jury nullification is the Jury agreeing that they didn't see nothing. If they say he did it but they aren't convicting that may very well be grounds for a mistrial. I suspect that the prosecution will argue that it was a mistrial regardless of whether the Jury nullifies or genuinely is unconvinced beyond a reasonable doubt.

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