Tainted Verdict: Sarah Palin Jury Knew During Deliberations That Judge Was Going To Throw Out A Liability Verdict – IOTW Report

Tainted Verdict: Sarah Palin Jury Knew During Deliberations That Judge Was Going To Throw Out A Liability Verdict

Legal Insurrection: The jurors “had involuntarily received ‘push notifications’ on their smartphones that contained the bottom-line of the ruling”.

Judge Jed Rakoff pulled a highly unusual move as the jury in Sarah Palin’s defamation case against the NY Times was deliberating. He ruled that he would dismiss the case based on Palin’s alleged failure to prove a key element of her claim.

The move was very strange because normally if a case is not proven, a judge rules on legal insufficiency either before the jury gets the case, or after it returns its verdict. That way there is a clean issue for appeal.

Since the jury was not sequestered, there was a strong likelihood that the jury would learn of the ruling before it reached its own conclusion.

This note from the jury during deliberations seemed unusually legalistic: more

11 Comments on Tainted Verdict: Sarah Palin Jury Knew During Deliberations That Judge Was Going To Throw Out A Liability Verdict

  1. TRF, take his name as a descriptor: he’s a Red Jackoff.

    Judges that sodomize our system of justice like that need to be punished in a special way. I’d like to see a reenactment of the drownings they did in Salem, MA to the “witches”.

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  2. Well, the state’s desired outcome was obtained with the least opportunity for the deplorable to pursue a remedy.

    There can be no reason for any member of the proletariat to complain.

    Justice was done. Now, back to your work and let this be a lesson to you all.

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  3. Still think the constitution is the “Law of the Land?” Still think any election is going to restore sanity? Still think the United States OF AMERICA is still a thing?

    If you do, I have a bridge in Bourne, MA for sale …cheap!

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