Overnight News: If what Derek Chauvin got is justice, how much of it will you be having?

I’m going to offer up a quote from Andrew Branca, from before the sequestration of the jury, to show you how Derek Chauvin was railroaded, regardless of your opinions of the case:

Frankly, at this point it’s absolutely apparent that Derek Chauvin can receive nothing like a fair trial in this case. When I write that, by the way, I’m defining “fair trial” as one involving a process we’d want for ourselves or a loved one, or even a friend or neighbor.

No one would want to be on trial, or have anyone they cared about on trial, in a courthouse surrounded by a violent, raging mob, being exhorted to further violence by government officials, with militant factions of political groups terrorizing the witness for the defense, and by extension the jury itself.

Yet that is what’s been offered to Derek Chauvin as “justice.”

Regardless of what anyone may think of Derek Chauvin, it is absolute truth that the criminal due process we offer to the worst of us is precisely what any of the rest of us should expect to also receive should we find ourselves having to account in a criminal court. And not one bit more.

If you would not want to be tried under these circumstances, then you ought not want anyone tried under these circumstances, including Derek Chauvin, or worse.

If you think what happened yesterday in Minneapolis was justice, feel free to submit yourself to it as many times as it takes for you to learn the value of ideas like the rule of law, the presumption of innocence, due process and ordinary, everyday fairness – you know, actual equity.

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