Tuesday, December 28, 2021

We're into either the fourth or fifth day of deliberations in the Maxwell trial, depending on which media outlet you ask.  Now that it's gone on this long, the Heir's 90% sure the jury's heading for full acquittal.  This despite the judge's voiced concerns that Omicron might threaten the ability of the trial to properly come to an end at all.  But the Heir will not accept anything less than a conviction of some sort.  So until and unless that happens, the Heir wants a social discussion about whether we need to have a *socially* mandated voir dire after a given trial, the same way there's a *legally* mandated voir dire before the trial.  The two questions the Heir wants asked of jurors in a post-voir dire is a) do you believe in the Rule Of Law, and b) do you believe the survivors.  He's well aware that once a court trial comes to an end, the jurors will return to their private lives, which is perfectly appropriate.  That said, the Heir holds out hope that with respect to the Maxwell trial and the Rittenhouse trial, at least one juror may come forward from either of those trials, and talk to a newspaper, and express regret for either the verdict or how the verdict was socially interpreted.  The jurors in the Maxwell trial were instructed not to listen to media reports about the case while the trial is going on, which means that 90% of what they need to know to make principled moral decisions they were left in the dark on.  So a given juror weeks or months *after* a trial may end up doing personal research on their own to find out what important information was not admitted, and then go to a newspaper, and then say, well if I knew then what I know now after the fact, I would not have voted to acquit.  The Heir encourages jurors to do so, though albeit they need to adhere to instructions and wait *after* the trial is over.  But they need to come forward for the children and their moral development accordingly.  The Heir has comments to say about the state of socialite society after the Maxwell trial, though he's going to need to wait, because that's another topic entirely.



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