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Federal Juries are often more rigged too I believe, pulling people loyal to the police state.
Can you elaborate? It certainly appeared that way in the Praieland trial but I don't know how common that is.
Federal districts are large, like a state of 10 million people might have two federal districts.
So jurors are pulled from that huge area. Naturally you will get more rural voters which trend more conservative But fed courts are also corrupt and it's easy for them to rig jury trials.
Just as the South Florida district rigged their supposed to be random selection from the 11 (active) judge circuit to choose a sycophant appointee of the president for both of the president's cases down there. 1/122 odds it wasn't rigged.
To be sure, many counties are just as bad to worse. My old county rigged juries for decades and decades for instance, and it took at least a decade if not more of some do gooders proving it over and over until they belatedly admitted an error in their methadology or something. I know a guy from like the 60's that voted not guilty as well and afterwards the prosecutor told him he would never be called for jury duty again, and he wasn't.
Over half of judges, and idk how many prosecutors, almost all at the moment, in fed courts are federalist society members, and they have no loyalty to the constitution, quite the opposite.
Yeah a friend of mine was falsely accused of a crime during a protest and seeing them navigate that process really destroyed any faith I had left in the so-called justice system. All it took was a single lying cop and every single person and institution deemed them guilty until proven innocent from that point forward. The rules might claim to protect people from those types of things but it didn't seem like many people really cared to follow them too closely. But that was a county level case so I have no experience with federal courts and the DOJ.
1% of federal defendants are acquitted, and 90% plea. According to a search page result, not giving me comparable state rates easily, but wikipedia on conviction rates says in part:
'n the United States federal court system, the conviction rate rose from approximately 75 percent to approximately 85% between 1972 and 1992.[29] For 2012, the US Department of Justice reported a 93% conviction rate.[30] In 2000, the conviction rate was also high in U.S. state courts. Coughlan, writing in 2000, stated, "In recent years, the conviction rate has averaged approximately 84% in Texas, 82% in California, 72% in New York, 67% in North Carolina, and 59% in Florida."[31]'