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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Tue Aug 21, 2018, 11:57 AM Aug 2018

Jury question suggests Manafort (Manny) is going down.

It looks like they reached unanimous verdicts on all the counts but one. It is very unlikely there were twelve votes for acquittal on all eighteen charges.

ON EDIT- CHANGED NUMBER OF CHARGES FROM FORTY PLUS TO EIGHTEEN

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Jury question suggests Manafort (Manny) is going down. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 OP

Acquittal Cartoonist Aug 2018 #1

There were forty one charges DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #2

Just sayin' Cartoonist Aug 2018 #11

im betting innocent samnsara Aug 2018 #3

I hope you didn't bet any money. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #12

Forty plus charges? B2G Aug 2018 #4

There are 18, not 40 or 41 Jersey Devil Aug 2018 #6

I have no idea what the OP is referring to. B2G Aug 2018 #7

I included those then edited. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #9

There's speculation they're plea-dealing right now. Hortensis Aug 2018 #5

I think the plea deal negotiation is about Michael Cohen. madaboutharry Aug 2018 #8

Oh, right! Wrong thread, wrong subject. Exciting Hortensis Aug 2018 #10

Cartoonist

(7,317 posts)

1. Acquittal

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:09 PM

Aug 2018

OJ
Bundy Boys
Zimm
White Cops
White Rapists
White . . .

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. There were forty one charges

Reply to Cartoonist (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:15 PM

Aug 2018

The prosecution wins over ninety percent of their cases, the cases you cited notwithstanding.

Or is this a question about which one

OJ
Bundy Boys
Zimm
White Cops
White Rapists
White . . .

is unlike the others ?

Cartoonist

(7,317 posts)

11. Just sayin'

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 02:57 PM

Aug 2018

It's Trumpworld now.

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

3. im betting innocent

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:45 PM

Aug 2018

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

12. I hope you didn't bet any money.

Reply to samnsara (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:02 PM

Aug 2018

B2G

(9,766 posts)

4. Forty plus charges?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:46 PM

Aug 2018

I thought it was 18.

Jersey Devil

(9,874 posts)

6. There are 18, not 40 or 41

Reply to B2G (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:49 PM

Aug 2018

Maybe they are referring to the money laundering charges that haven't come up for trial yet?

B2G

(9,766 posts)

7. I have no idea what the OP is referring to.

Reply to Jersey Devil (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:50 PM

Aug 2018

Maybe they will clarify.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

9. I included those then edited.

Reply to Jersey Devil (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:55 PM

Aug 2018

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

5. There's speculation they're plea-dealing right now.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:48 PM

Aug 2018

The bar on the bottom of the screen now says, no deal reached yet, not no verdict reached yet.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)

8. I think the plea deal negotiation is about Michael Cohen.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:51 PM

Aug 2018

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

10. Oh, right! Wrong thread, wrong subject. Exciting

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #8)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 01:04 PM

Aug 2018

development. An ex- prosecutor said the other day that his going silent suggested to her that he might have decided to cooperate in exchange for a deal.

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