On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.

“We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s— is out of control.”

“I hope every juror is doxxed and they pay for what they have done,” another user wrote on Trump’s Truth Social platform Thursday. “May God strike them dead. We will on November 5th and they will pay!”

  • @[email protected]
    17•6 months ago

    Yeah but it’s not a purely random sample, because of the jury selection process.

    So we can’t really say anything in a statistical sense. I’d guess (not based on any statistics, just common sense) that there would be a higher percentage of independents in the jury than there would be in the general population. At any rate they would people that likely don’t think about politics very much. With Trump, if someone is politically minded at all they’d have a strong opinion on Trump (one way or the other) and would be likely disqualified from being on the jury.

    Anyway the point of jury selection is to not be a random sample, but a group of people that aren’t biased for or against the defendant. The polling on the general populace doesn’t have the requirement to not be politically biased to participate, so we can’t use statistics for this.

    Sorry for being being that guy, but proper use of statistics is important to me! Sorry!

    • @linearchaosEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Selection process is random but the challenge process keeps it white noise. They’re each going to throw away a set number of people that are bad for their side. In the end it ends up being kind of random still anyway.

    • Melody FwygonEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      Is it still likely that there is at least one republican? I think it is possible.

      All it would take is one allied republican on the jury to potentially leak juror identities.