r/CapitolConsequences • u/CCMcC • Jan 23 '23

Jury finds Barnett guilty of eight insurrection charges CONVICTION

https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/jury-finds-barnett-guilty-of-eight-insurrection-charges/

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u/zeidoktor Jan 23 '23

Part of me wonders how surprised he was at the verdict.

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u/ghostalker4742 Jan 23 '23

This was a believer. He genuinely thought that if he made his case to a jury that they'd understand, they'd sympathize, and he'd walk out of court a free man.

And everyone telling him the feds have a +96% conviction rate at trial, and that the vast majority of defendant take a plea deal rather than go to trial.... they were just spouting fake news, right?

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '23

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u/funkyloki Jan 24 '23

The judge should be censuring that asshole. The bar doesn't allow lawyers to spread bullshit like that, right?

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u/NeoMegaRyuMKII Jan 24 '23

This was a believer. He genuinely thought that if he made his case to a jury that they'd understand, they'd sympathize, and he'd walk out of court a free man.

I have to imagine that he saw various movies that involved that sort of thing - the underdog giving some passionate heartfelt speech about how they won't back down and how they really are in the right and the system is just trying to punish them for it, and then suddenly everything goes in their favor - and thought "yeah, that's how real life is." And then reality hit him in a sort of real-life version of that "life is not like a game where you can load your last save" scene from DDLC.