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[–] 199 points 2 months ago (23 children)

I really think he’d have a shot at jury nullification tbh

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  • [–] 167 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Even if his defense was that he only killed a CEO and not a person, I'd acquit him.

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  • [–] 75 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    If I became president, I'd pardon him.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If I became president, I’d pardon him AND give everyone a free yo-yo

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Kinda funny how when Trump pardons criminals everyone gets mad but here when someone suggests doing the exact same it’s totally fine (because this guy’s on our side…)

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Kinda funny that you can't distinguish between criminal and hero. You need book to tell you who is bad and who is good

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    This is the issue though. You say he’a a hero and the other half of the population say he’s a criminal. What makes you right and them wrong? Or the other way around?

    If he is indeed guilty then that does make him a criminal by definition. As for being a hero, that’s subjective. One can be both a criminal and a hero.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If his defense droped a few stories of other people being ruined by the insurance industry an just kept hammering it home he totally could

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    If the jury was all Lemmings then for sure. But people here aren't as representative of the general public as they think they are. Older Americans in particular are not down with Luigi.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It only takes one person intent on nullification to hang a jury. The prosecution can retry the case, but they have to decide if it’s worth it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    All the old people on my social media stopped short of explicitly praising murder, but none of them objected to people saying it was cool and most said they understood. Old people, while more conservative are also more likely to have an insurance horror story of their own or someone they know. Even my the MAGA boomer acquaintance treated it with humor rather than tragedy.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If juries were fairly selected he'd 100% get jury nullification...

    Which is why it wasn't going to happen organically in the current selection.

    It's like how to beat "straw purchase" gun laws: you just have to lie.

    If you've heard of it as a concept, that's enough to take you off. To the point it's been a strategy for a long time of people who want to avoid jury duty. It doesn't always work, because most of the time they don't really care

    Something like this, the government isn't letting anyone on who knows what it is, and especially today would investigate anyone who suddenly "learned about it" after being selected.

    So to be clear:

    1. It should have worked.

    2. It wouldn't have.

    Like, we'd have need Mario to get on the jury while wearing an obvious disguise, and they'd be taking almost as much of a risk as player 2. It just wasn't likely.

    I'm super interested in his reasoning for this, but I'd be really surprised if they let him do interviews anytime soon, and what matters more than us knowing is his legal strategies working. We just gotta wait and see.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    I have lied about my intentions on every jury and I tell my loved ones to do the same.

    Don’t disclose it ahead of time, obviously.

    They can investigate it all they like, but all you have to do is never say the phrase “jury nullification” and start talking about how you’re not sure this should be a crime at all. I’m not saying it would necessarily work, but it’s not as though jury nullification is a wild thing that only exists in the US, it’s a fundamental part of how juries work- acknowledging it isn’t suspicious (again, without the name).

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