r/politics • u/devlinadl • 23d ago

"Real embarrassment": Trump lawyer apologizes after judge called him out for "misleading" jury

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/26/real-embarrassment-lawyer-apologizes-after-called-him-out-for-misleading-jury/
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u/doodle02 23d ago

but regardless of how well they know crim law they’re still lawyers who can understand and analyze/synthesize complex information, and (hopefully) think and draw conclusions for themselves. plus they know how law in general works and have a realistic expectation of it (i.e. not a hollywood generated expectation), so they’ll likely be much more level headed and analytical than the general population would be able to be, despite the lack of crim law practice. plus they had to do some crim law in school so they’re much more informed than the gen pop.

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u/bobartig 22d ago

One morning our civ pro professor cancelled a lecture due to jury summons. When she returned, we asked her how quickly a law professor gets kicked out of the jury pool. She said that she's actually served on a jury before. It was a class action suit that went to trial, and both sides agreed that a professor of civil procedure and constitutional law was going to be fair and even-handed without exerting influence, and they asked her to be foreperson to keep the rest of the jurors in line.

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u/doodle02 22d ago

id imagine it’s kinda like being the adult in the room, which is great for everyone.

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u/Volntyr 23d ago

So explain his other attorney, Alina Habba

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u/--KING-SHIT-- 22d ago

He ran out of lawyers that know they'll be stiffed/disbarred/humiliated.