I haven’t followed the Rittenhouse story very much. It doesn’t particularly interest me. My casual opinion is that Rittenhouse was stupid to get involved the way he did, but that the shootings were in self defense. He’s probably liable for other charges. <\/p>\n
But that’s not my point here. The bigger issue, IMO, is how the legal system can work when a trial “goes viral,” as they say. <\/p>\n
The judge has been threatened. Jurors are afraid that if they come to the “wrong” verdict, there will be riots, and they might be attacked personally. <\/p>\n
I don’t know how we solve this. We don’t want secret juries. We don’t want to tell the press what they can and can’t cover. But it’s also quite clear that these sorts of cases come with serious risk of an injustice being done because of the public attention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t followed the Rittenhouse story very much. It doesn’t particularly interest me. My casual opinion is that Rittenhouse was stupid to get involved the way he did, but that the shootings were in self defense. He’s probably liable for other charges. But that’s not my point here. The bigger issue, IMO, is how the … Continue reading “Fair trials in the public view?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}