Well, it looks like I was Wrong about the Dunn jury
I really thought the lesser charges in the Dunn trial would prove more challenging than the primary charge.
That said... this makes no sense at all because there ought to be unanimity on some lesser included... manslaughter... something. (A person voting for 1st degree would also find the elements of lesser homicides)
Which suggests a juror who will not find any wrongful death in the primary charge... which requires a self defense finding... which means that the lessers would be acquittals...
If any juror finds this to be a self defense case, as defined in law, then they are, in fact, an insane racist.
Unlike the Zimmerman case, a self defense finding here would be a nullification of the law as written, not a controversial application of the law as written.
The Dunn case would, in a more sane world, be a textbook law school example of how self defense in not a state of mind determination, since it is legally irrelevant (to self defense) whether the defendant thought there was a gun, but rather whether a reasonable person would have thought there was a gun, with the level of certainty a reasonable person would require to open fire.
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