When I served on a jury, I was one of four lawyers - and it wound up helping defense counsel, who had an unsavory client with a solid legal defense (which some might have viewed as a "technicality," but the lawyers totally got it).https://twitter.com/StevenFinell/status/1022904508781875201 …
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Replying to @DavidLat
Would agree if you have a technical argument on jury instruction. One wouldn't mind having a lawyer or two. If you have an argument the cops planted it on me, probably not.....
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Replying to @EricfromClt
The former - we dutifully followed the jury instructions on the "agency defense" in a drug buy-and-bust prosecution - see the first graph of this article, which calls it a "judicial loophole" (closed by most jurisdictions, but not NY): https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2538&context=lawreview …
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