Arizona has made clear that it has no regard for your right to a free and fair election, no regard for your right to know what charges you face if assaulted in the dead of night by SWAT, and no regard for your right to a trial by a jury of 12 peers.
Arizona believes in zero transparency, zero due process, and zero accountability for officials.
And as Khorrami v. Arizona, has made perfectly clear, the so-called "Supreme" Court has no interest in striking down Arizona mistrials either.
"The dissent also points out that the Court had empirical data suggesting “smaller juries are less likely to foster effective group deliberation” which works to the detriment of the defendant, while '12-member juries deliberate longer, recall information better, and pay greater attention to dissenting voices.' "
Translation: A jury of 8 is more prone to groupthink and manipulation, leading to false convictions. Perfect for a state that is railroad-happy!
Long story short: in modern Arizona, the 6th amendment no longer exists. Should Arizonans take up arms, and do something about that? How much extreme prejudice would you be in favor of?
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It’s 2022 in the richest country in the world. How that state can’t have a fair, transparent and quick election is an embarrassment to the whole country. Also the person who won having the conflict of interest of supervising the election process is straight up 3rd world.
About the only state acting more Third World banana republic than Arizona, is Michigan.
That Pennsylvania voted for a man that's almost entirely literally braindead, and running mate that's also literally dead, tells me there's shenanigans aplenty going on.
Either there is shady stuff going on or the majority of people voting are dumb. Not sure which is worse.
I think it's a little of both. I've run into enough dumb that I have encountered from real life from my previous life in Michigan to know that the dumb is strong with this age. Which is why it can be hard to tell on Facebook anymore who's a true believer in this Matrix they're in, and who's trolling.
SCOTUS allowed Arizona's eight person juries to remain (five other states, including Florida, do not require 12 person juries in all cases), although Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were keen, as usual, to overturn another 50 years of Supreme Court precedent.
Their argument was that you need twelve people to provide impartial justice. Good argument. SCOTUS should have 12 members.
You need 12 before convicting someone for a serious crime. That's not the same as the number needed to review a questionable new law, evaluate according to the supreme law of the land, and then find fault with the new law, and have it struck down for violating higher law.
Apples and tire swings.
In either case, it's about stacking the deck. If any lawless bunch gets to put in 12 justices to the Supreme Court that are more about agenda than upholding the law, then stacking the deck for lawlessness becomes near-impossible to counter.
At the same time, if the jury is limited to only 8, then 8 are easier to manipulate into finding someone guilty with less than proof beyond reasonable doubt. A jury of 12 will deliberate longer, and be less willing to be manipulated so easily.
Case in point: BLM and Antifa activists making active threats to members of the jury in they Kyle Rittenhouse case, requiring those jurors to risk their lives to ignore the threats and give a fair ruling.
If there were only 8, and they had no protection, they probably would have convicted him. Not because of actual belief of guilt; but to save their own skin.
Kyle was fortunate to even get a jury. Family courts constantly find ways to lie, forge signatures, and deprive parents accused of nonsense of the ability to have a fair trial, or a jury trial, all to speed up the process of taking the kids away.
Katie Hobbs as their gov? That mentally ill women hahaha. We'll see what she does
There's so much questionable going on in Arizona, the board refuses to certify the election for her.
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