Message from @Zuluzeit

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2021-01-01 14:05:32 UTC  

umm i claim the chewbacca defense!

2021-01-01 14:05:53 UTC  

Hahaha Chewbacca defense.

2021-01-01 14:05:58 UTC  

no

2021-01-01 14:06:21 UTC  

State-specific, but rulings are handled by juries, not judges, in trial by jury.

2021-01-01 14:06:27 UTC  

They can overrule a jury and find someone not guilty. They cannot overrule a jury and find someone guilty.

2021-01-01 14:07:15 UTC  

Is Trump Chewbacca

2021-01-01 14:07:50 UTC  

From https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/criminal-sentencing-faq.html: "Judges, not juries, almost always determine the punishment, even following jury trials. In fact, a common jury instruction warns jurors not to consider the question of punishment when deciding a defendant's guilt or innocence."

2021-01-01 14:07:53 UTC  

The courts must be biased if they don’t let the wookie win

2021-01-01 14:08:09 UTC  

Also in Texas, the defendant can choose judge or jury for sentencing.

2021-01-01 14:08:23 UTC  

No one doesn't like wookies.

2021-01-01 14:08:30 UTC  

Emperors maybe.

2021-01-01 14:08:40 UTC  

But not in Texas!

2021-01-01 14:09:16 UTC  

That would be why it said "almost always".

2021-01-01 14:09:24 UTC  

That’s not what the Chewbacca defense is? Shame on you South Park

2021-01-01 14:10:17 UTC  

You're pivoting to sentencing when we were talking about verdict.

2021-01-01 14:10:47 UTC  

They're related.

2021-01-01 14:11:16 UTC  

In fact, when I Googled "do juries pass sentence ", one of the options that came up was "do juries pass sentence in Texas"!

2021-01-01 14:12:04 UTC  

I don't think anyone would dispute that Texas is 'special'.

2021-01-01 14:12:10 UTC  

Verdict != sentencing.

2021-01-01 14:12:28 UTC  

GOD BLESS TEXAS!

2021-01-01 14:12:38 UTC  

Amen

2021-01-01 14:12:42 UTC  

I said that trial by jury doesn't mean that the jury does everything; judges still pass sentence. And therefore "trial by jury" doesn't *necessarily* mean that juries convict as opposed to just determining guilt or otherwise.

2021-01-01 14:12:58 UTC  

Ok, but that wasn't my argument.

2021-01-01 14:13:25 UTC  

your Honer i am sorry but that codom is much to large for me. "if the glove does not fit you must acquit" so "i did not have sexual relations with that woman" = chewbacca!

2021-01-01 14:14:46 UTC  

Also being convicted is the determination of guilt.

2021-01-01 14:14:51 UTC  

LOL!!!

2021-01-01 14:15:02 UTC  

Hence why it's "being convicted and sentenced"

2021-01-01 14:15:11 UTC  

sorry all i never claimed i was right but 90% of my arguments hold up in court

2021-01-01 14:16:05 UTC  

That's the bit that I wasn't sure of (and did not dogmatically claim). But I've now checked, and you're correct; determination of guilt IS the conviction.

2021-01-01 14:16:13 UTC  

I've never been a juror on a criminal trial; they don't want me.

2021-01-01 14:16:29 UTC  

I was on one once, but the trial was aborted.

2021-01-01 14:17:20 UTC  

yea i dodged a coat hanger for the 1st 9 mounths of my life...

2021-01-01 14:18:00 UTC  

Really? Hard to dodge; there wasn't much room was there?

2021-01-01 14:18:59 UTC  

It wasn't murder, it was a 4th trimester abortion.

2021-01-01 14:19:17 UTC  

when you are backed against a wall you will be surprised what most can do

2021-01-01 14:20:18 UTC  

There were walls?

2021-01-01 14:20:48 UTC  

just wondering when is it to late to abort my son is 30 now what does the Scotus say?

2021-01-01 14:21:10 UTC  

Bad territory. My brother died at birth in "60. I was 1. The marriage went south after that.

2021-01-01 14:23:10 UTC  

yea no answer must be a latches thing

2021-01-01 14:23:11 UTC  

My daughter is 36; I wonder the same thing!

2021-01-01 14:23:46 UTC  

I'm thinking standing