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It's Thursday, February 11th, 2021, from Slated to the Gisdai Mike Pesca. If you ask the

lawyer what he or she would rather have, favorable facts, a sympathetic client, an easygoing

judge or a jury clearly predisposed to believe you, well, you wouldn't even have to ask

the lawyer. Of course, it's the jury. If you have a criminal trial where the jury is

on the record as having supported the defendant, indeed of still having their professional

fortunes inextricably tied to the guiltlessness of the defendant, it's not even being a question

of law. It's a question more like, how did this corruption of fairness come to stand?

Well, that is actually what's going on in the Senate, and it is fair and it is unfair.

The Senate are the constitutionally designated jurors, and also think about this. They are

unlike a criminal or civil jury actually accountable to voters directly for their verdicts. This,

of course, colors everything about the outcome, but there are other colorings, shadings in

this procedure that I would like to ponder for just a moment. One is that the site of the

trial is the crime scene. This sometimes does happen in a criminal case a couple years ago,

a defendant in a courthouse near Kansas City grabbed a hold of a gun and shot and killed two

officers. The trial took place in the same Wyandotte County courthouse, which couldn't have

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