Chicago Jury Acquits Immigrant Accused in Bovino Murder-for-Hire Trial

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4. Citizen juries are the last nonviolent defense against fascist dictatorship

Most dictatorships emerged in judge-run justice systems. Juries are a stumbling block to fascism.

Very clearly, if our system was purely judge-operated, the judiciary would fall quickly, as it is already doing, in fact. The juries are the less controllable factor.

Watch for discussions to start on the right about the wisdom of jury trials or some method of jury shopping, like moving Minnesota cases to Alabama or the like.

(Notice that this was also the case on the right: juries acquitted numerous right wing agitators like the Bundy's out west and some of the Whitmer kidnap conspirators. There are other examples as well. The fact that most of the January 6 defendants and Trump himself were convicted in jury trials is very telling - they couldn't find a single MAGA to hang the jury, even though there were MAGAs on some of those juries, including Trump's 34 conviction jury!)