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All 6 cops to be tried individually. This help the BLM cause? Make it easier to convict or be found not guilty?
Its not clear. I'm sure the prosecution witnesses are not happy about testifying six times. On the other hand, it gives the prosecution the opportunity to correct in one trial any mistakes made in the previous one. Still, I'd say that it is fair for the Defendants that each be judged based on their own actions alone.
I don't think it affects much except that it's the right thing to do for the Officers and I'm sure their attorneys were pleased with the decision.
Oh, I think that it is a huge change. Single trials are far easier to manage and vast easier for juries to follow the evidence presented. It also has up and downsides for the defendants. I would think that with the trials being separated it is far easier for a co-defendant to testify adversely against another. On the downside is could present disparate verdicts with perhaps the most guilty getting acquitted and another with heavier penalties. Either way it should be interesting.
I hope these idiots all get arrested. I also hope they resist so they can finally experience "police brutality" firsthand and have something to legitimately b***h about all the time.
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Oh, I think that it is a huge change. Single trials are far easier to manage and vast easier for juries to follow the evidence presented. It also has up and downsides for the defendants. I would think that with the trials being separated it is far easier for a co-defendant to testify adversely against another. On the downside is could present disparate verdicts with perhaps the most guilty getting acquitted and another with heavier penalties. Either way it should be interesting.
The defense was worried that lumping together those with higher charges and those with lesser charges may end up being damaging to those with the lesser charges -- the evidence against the one with the higher charges being used against those with the lesser charges, and, the judge agreed with that reasoning saying "It 'is not in the interest of justice' to try some facing murder or manslaughter charges with others facing lesser counts".
The next hearing will be on the 10th of this month, to see if the trials need to be moved.
On another note, I was glad to see that the protesters kept their word about it being peaceful. Though, since the charges weren't dropped then they really had no reason to do much more than protest. There was the epic fail on the part of the one protester, who had been arrested. He was on the street, the cops kept trying to get him to get off the street but with no success. A car stopped just short of hitting the guy, but the idiot fell down claiming that the car hit him (don't try to pull that b.s. when there is a large crowd of eyewitnesses around to say the car never touched him, lol). The sorry thing about that situation is that when one of the cops bent down to help him up, he kicked that cop in the face injuring the cop.
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