Prosecutors are inevitably going to lose some circumstances in our jury system, however they need to win the massive ones or confidence in trustworthy justice declines. That explains the shock, if not shock, on Friday when a federal jury did not convict 4 males accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The prosecutions made nationwide headlines in 2020 as supposed proof that political polarization could have been driving People to violent extremism. The indictments match a preferred media narrative, fed by Democrats, that right-wing radicals had been ready to commit terrorist acts.
