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  • Ja, das kann wohl ein Problem für die Anklage werden. Stichwort: Jury Nullification.

    Jury nullification, also known in the United Kingdom as jury equity, or a perverse verdict, is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury’s reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust, that the prosecutor has misapplied the law in the defendant’s case, that the punishment for breaking the law is too harsh, or general frustrations with the criminal justice system. It has been commonly used to oppose what jurors perceive as unjust laws, such as those that once penalized runaway slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act, prohibited alcohol during Prohibition, or criminalized draft evasion during the Vietnam War. Some juries have also refused to convict due to their own prejudices in favor of the defendant. Such verdicts are possible because a jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification



  • Was ich gehört habe muss er auf nicht schuldig plädieren ansonsten kann er sich gleich die Schlinge um den Hals legen aber es gibt wohl hauptsächlich nur Indizien und keinen direkten Beweis (das habe ich aber nur so in Erinnerung).

    Außerdem muss er von einer Jury schuldig gesprochen werden und da fangen die Probleme der Staatsanwaltschaft wohl schon an.

    In a criminal trial, a jury must find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; if not, the defendant is deemed not guilty. A non-unanimous jury is considered hung.

    “I was always worried about jury nullification even in the most routine cases I handled as a prosecutor. All it takes is one juror and you have a hung jury,” Honig, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney, said during a CNN segment on Thursday.

    He added that the “risk here absolutely is elevated,” noting that he has “never seen an outpouring of affection and support for a defendant charged with a vicious murder like we have in this case.”

    […]

    Honig, a senior CNN legal analyst, noted on Thursday that during jury selection in Trump’s trial “half of the jury just got up and walked out because they felt they were too biased.”

    https://www.newsweek.com/risk-luigi-mangione-trial-ends-hung-jury-absolutely-elevated-elie-honig-2004362

    Bei der Sympathie, die dem Mann entgegenschlägt, hat er vielleicht tatsächlich eine von Null verschiedene Chance da als freier Mann raus zu gehen. Wird spannend.