kibblebits

Have you tried blood pressure meds? Propranolol?

There needs to be an entire community for “laundry cats”

When I do the laundry I say “ok buddy, here it is, I’ll fold them before bed”

And he just lays in the pile all day.

When I fold them, he paws at it like he’s helping me fold.

If they don’t, and they say they aren’t, it is a mistrial.

If they don’t, and they keep their mouth shut, then no one knows.

Connected.

They have to. I mean legally they cannot consider that evidence. If they keep bringing it up in jury deliberations, and that gets reported, it would be a mistrial.

However, you’re right in that it cannot be erased from a person’s mind… the phrase I’ve heard used is “ringing the bell” which is when a lawyer might mention a persons prior convictions, but that gets objected to and stricken. But the bell rung and the jury knows.

They don’t. But later in deliberations they cannot see it in a transcript. They are supposed to base everything on the evidence they have.

So, if something is said that absolutely incriminates a person, but it’s thrown out on a technicality and little evidence remains… technically they should be not guilty.

Conversely, if someone is being railroaded for a crime and the only evidence placing them half way across the world at the time is somehow thrown out…. They’d have to find them guilty.

Could you? I could not.