How do you get a fair jury in Michigan?

[Stinky The Clown]

I guess you don't.

No conviction in the Whitmer kidnap plot trial.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jury-declines-convict-defendants-michigan-gov-whitmer-kidnapping-trial-rcna22516

[Hoyt]

1. Jury or crummy prosecutors?

[Dr. Strange]

12. It would be interesting to interview the jurors and find out.

My suspicion is that it was the FBI. There were an awful lot of undercover agents and paid informants involved in the case and apparently some of them started having legal troubles. But I know the government was trying to keep a lot of that from coming out in court, so I'm not sure how much the jury heard.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I guess some folks want to legalize crime up there.

[Novara]

3. As a Michigander, I can report that there is a disconcertingly large number of ...

... idiots here. I am constantly embarrassed about my state.

[shrike3]

7. Nearly everyone from my high school class is a Trumper

I do not seek out or attend reunions.

[PCIntern]

4. Practice, practice, practice?

Reference to the Inglorious Basterds clip below..

[Celerity]

5. move

[VGNonly]

6. Grand Rapids Area

Mar-a-Lago North

[rockfordfile]

8. That jury sounds messed up.

Traitors like those pos should've been given the death penalty.

[underpants]

9. Reminds me of Ammon Bundy's hurry and trial

Jury of their peers.

[Srkdqltr]

10. keep the FBI out of it. If it looks like entrapment there is a problem.

As a non judicial person I could see that there would be an entrapment problem from the beginning. The defendants didn't make a real move on their own. Much as I don't like the idea of what they were planning I think I would have a problem convicting them of much. There was too much FBI interference. So what happens to the guys who pled guilty and are in jail now?

[ForgedCrank]

16. I like when

I see common sense posts.
I've heard rumors of entrapment, but I don't know the extent of what went on.
I agree that it's a shame they can't be convicted for doing what they were doing, but if the FBI was guilty of breaking the law in order to get the charges, that cannot be excused, ever. And if it's true, I hope those individuals are held accountable as well.
It sounds like the blame here belongs to the FBI, not the jury (who are chosen with the agreement of the prosecutors and defense).

[gibraltar72]

11. I'm in Southern Mi.

You couldn't throw a dead cat without hitting a cult member.

[brooklynite]

13. Before people leap to "jury nullification" conspiracy theories...

Some of the charges were unanimously rejected by the jury. That's a failure of the prosecution and the evidence.

[Hoyt]

14. Sad. Didn't some of the other rubes involved plead guilty?

[UTUSN]

15. K&R