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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Nothing actually indicates it was a consideration, though. It was an issue brought up two weeks prior, solved by having jurors enter through a secure entrance, and wasn’t brought up in the discussion of the dismissal.
The fact that two separate juries has issue with Formenton’s representation leading to a mistrial and a jury dismissal is probably the bigger concern than the possibility of jury intimidation which the judge adequately dealt with weeks before.
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Potentially. There's multiple posters in this thread who've made very disparaging remarks about the defence lawyers without actually ever having seen them in person. Without knowing what's happened, this is a pretty easy case to have a pre-existing bias on, and then project those biases onto the lawyers. Regardless of whether or not the players are found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of criminal behaviour, the players did all sorts of things that are downright sleazy and acted in ways decent people shouldn't.
The fact that 2 of 12 jurors had a bad opinion of the lawyers, potentially, doesn't really mean anything.