Hunter Biden Prosecutors Might've Already Lost the Jury

[Jilly_in_VA]

Shan Wu

The Hunter Biden trial starting in Wilmington, Delaware, is a poster-child case for potential jury nullification.

Biden, the only surviving son of President Joe Biden, is being tried for possessing a firearm while being a user of illegal drugs or drug addict and for lying about the same on a purchase form when he bought a gun. On the surface, the prosecution—a culmination of more than a half-decade of investigation by Special Counsel David Weiss—would appear to have a slam dunk case because there is no real dispute he bought the gun, or that he had a drug addiction around the time he bought the gun.

But beneath the surface, the case is ripe for the phenomenon of jury nullification.

The strict definition of jury nullification is when a jury has determined that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt—but either rejects the evidence or refuses to apply the law because the jury “wants to send a message about some social issue that is larger than the case itself, or because the result dictated by law is contrary to the jury’s sense of justice, morality, or fairness.”

Let’s be clear. Juries are not supposed to do that. They are supposed to convict if the evidence proves guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and acquit if it doesn’t.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-biden-prosecutors-mightve-already-lost-the-jury?ref=home

[brewens]

1. I keep saying it's just Hunter just this one time. How many gun MAGAts want stricter enforcement of that law?

I'd apply it to alcohol junkies too and a DUI or drunken domestic violence could cost you your guns and possible prison time. Try passing that!

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2. Well the prosecutor already lost Lindsey Graham.

I can easily see the jury acquitting Biden in this case.

[CrispyQ]

4. Maga heads will explode! 💥

I'm gonna pick up some of those plastic drop cloths when I'm out this afternoon.

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5. BiDeN RiGGeD the Joory!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. And a pretty sound it will be

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3. Juries are made up of people who have had the heartbreak of addiction in

their family or their friends. If the prosecution think Hunter will get any thing but sympathy, they are nuts. Also, I understand that he had just completed some sort of program to help himself and did not consider himself an addict at that time.

[Wonder Why]

6. There is nothing that forces them to convict or judge the defendant guilty or not proven guilty in the Sixth Amendment

Sixth Amendment

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Abbe Lowell is evidently doing a good job

Abbie Lowell is an amazing attorney

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