r/law • u/bendubberley_ • 15h ago

Legal News The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case is admonishing jurors who are refusing to follow his instructions

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u/Bongoisnthere 13h ago

Reese Witherspoon was made foreman of her Jury because other jurors thought she had gone to lawschool for legally blonde.

12 angry men massively overestimates the jurors in that movie. The trial in idiocracy is significantly more realistic

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u/Rockergage 13h ago

I mean it’s also just not legal law. The 12th man fabricates circumstantial evidence with no basis. Also he just brings a switch blade into the jury room.

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u/ClawofBeta 13h ago

No? The 12th man is trying to prove to others that the accusation evidence IS circumstantial.

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u/ScientificSkepticism 1h ago

Almost all evidence is circumstantial. Fingerprints, for instance, or blood residue, both circumstantial.

Eyewitnesses and camera recordings are not, and one of those is a known mess.

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u/mauvewaterbottle 10h ago

Are you ok? Did you read the play? What is “legal law”? This is such a confidently incorrect take I need to know more.

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u/Chemical-Editor-7609 6h ago

There are numerous legal analyses that show that he would have been removed, essentially he was acting as an advocate rather than analyzing the evidence provided.