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This story is still not about that. Attorneys can and probably do use peremptory challenges to strike jurors who’ve survived similar crimes to their cases, but that ability is usually limited, but there is no rule anywhere that categorically bars sexual abuse or assault survivors from serving on juries for sexual assault or abuse cases. Someone reported to you incorrectly. And in any case the problem in *this* story is not that the juror was a sexual assault survivor. It’s that they *lied* on their jury questionnaire and then made *public* statements that strongly suggest they went into the case without an open mind.

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Yeah whatever. MY point is pretending the courts can control what jurors do and don’t think, and everything they say on that micro level is a fantasy. Also super glad that you know what all the rules are in all the courts everywhere in the world.

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Oh my fucking god, get off your high horse. You got some incorrect information about jury selection and misinterpreted this story. It’s fine. A lot of people think weird things about court procedures that aren’t really true. Nobody’s arguing that it’s a perfect system or that courts can completely control for jurors’ thoughts and inclinations. You’re tilting at multiple straw men at this point.

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😂😂😂😂🙄🙄🙄🙄 OK bullying Looney Tunes person, I’m glad you think you’ve “won“. Now maybe you can STFU.“High horse“ 😂😂😂

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Problem for these modern billionaires is that they're cash poor. If they sell their shares, they actually have to pay taxes, in addition to losing power in the companies they own, so they finance the lifestyle by borrow against the share values.

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Did they bother with propaganda under the Czars?

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I can't imagine attorneys going for such a thing as it would put them into a world of hurt. After all, as far as we know they weren't employed by tfg. Or were they?

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John Wayne = Marian Morrisey or something equally pedantic so he doesn't count. John Glenn was obviously shifty as hell and that Tommy John guy used Performance enhancing surgeries to get an unfair advantage over dudes who didn't blow out their elbows.

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All of them, asshole. Every single one.

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Hahaha. The husband was just playing Elden Ring, and was pissed about having to fight eagles carrying barrel bombs, with two swords also tied to their feet.

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If he's not careful, Putin's going to get himself another Afghanistan. Motivated nationals will fight to the last man.

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How do we know Juror 50 isn't lying about his one man vigilante quest for the correct decision in the jury room? Have any of the others confirmed his "heroics"?

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someone help me commission a tv ad like that one that one group did for the crt laws

*knock at the door*White Suburban Housewife: "Coming!"The door opens, revealing a scary CPS agent.Agent: "Ma'am. We received a report after you posted this picture online."Agent holds up a cute photo of a toddler trying to walk in his mom's high heels.Agent: "We're going to need you to come with us."*black screen*

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FWIW. Ghislaine Maxwell is an example of the horror that can ensue when parents recklessly give their kids weird names. Just think how different things might have been if they had named her something like just plain "Elaine."

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I seem to recall learning that the Finnish used food to win their wars. They kept their own troops VERY well-fed while fucking up the supply lines of the enemy. Hungry people are very susceptible to booby traps placed around "abandoned" food.

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Glad somebody else noticed that.

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