Comment by DrBazza
13 hours ago
The claims were for defamation and incitement:
> A Morton County jury on Wednesday ordered Greenpeace to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline, finding that the environmental group incited illegal behavior by anti-pipeline protesters and defamed the company.
> The nine-person jury delivered a verdict in favor of Energy Transfer on most counts, awarding more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer and Dakota Access LLC.
It seems like the jury did its job on the evidence presented.
Rough jury pool. 75.36% for Trump in the latest election, and one presumes a lot of energy sector employment.
Maybe? The judge, and the lawyers involved have the right to reject jurors that might prejudice a trail.
Yes, but that's a lot easier to manage in a county that doesn't have only 30k people in it.
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Lawyers don't have unlimited removals though.
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North Dakota voted 67% overall for Trump, this is not too far from being representative of the general population. Considering that anyone who is openly hostile against energy companies is going to be removed during selection I don’t see the jury as the issue.
Edit: and considering this was the Southwest district, looking at results by county, 75% seems about right. This isn’t necessarily a biased jury in the sense that selection was unfair, this is probably the makeup you’d get with a fair selection. https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/north-dako...
People can hide their biases (or claim they can set them aside, which will often be acceptable during jury selection), and in a county with 30k people you're gonna run into people who recognize you at the grocery store a lot. This certainly wouldn't have been a pressure-free scenario.
It can be quite hard to get a jury to go against a locally powerful large employer in a small town.
Did you feel that the jury in New York City (76% voted for Biden in 2020) that convicted Trump of falsifying business records similarly corrupt?
lol, nothing to do with Biden - Trump soiled his brand in NYC over 4+ decades of screwing people over, not paying bills around town, "strategic bankruptcies" etc.
It's telling that "trump" buildings rebranded in NYC...
NYC has a… slightly larger population to pull from, which makes the chances of being recognized at the store quite a bit lower.
Convicting Trump doesn't throw half of NYC onto the dole, either.
My comment was flagged. But, basic assumption should not be that Trump voters and Biden ones are symmetrical.
One group finds candidate who defrauds more then any other politician before appealing and right kind manly. They see him sexually harassing women appealing. Moreover all fascists vote for Trump. Both sides have bad people in ... but Trump side is defined by them.
There is no symetry here. This particular choice is literally showing that yes, you are more likely to be unfair kind of juror.
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