Ep. 1615 - LGBT Judge Lets Child Killer Walk Free In SHOCKING Court Decision
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Summary
Why is a confessed child killer about to walk free in Oregon even after being convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his crime? We ll talk about the latest case that shows how leftist radicals have destroyed the justice system and the country along with it. Also, the Trump administration has apparently abandoned plans to give amnesty to illegal aliens who work for farms and hotels, which is great news. And the more we hear about the assassination of politicians in Minnesota, the less the story makes sense. Plus, with the summer, comes more viral videos of the bizarre, disturbing creatures known as Disney Adults. We ll cover that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, why is a confessed child killer about to walk free in Oregon,
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even after being convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his crime?
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We'll talk about the latest case that shows how leftist radicals have destroyed the justice system
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Also, the Trump administration has apparently abandoned plans to give amnesty to illegal aliens
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who work for farms and hotels, which is great news.
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And the more we hear about the assassination of those politicians in Minnesota,
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Plus, with the summer comes more viral videos of the bizarre, disturbing creatures,
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We'll cover that in today's Daily Cancellation.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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On December 17th of 2013, a 15-month-old girl by the name of Camaya Flores was found dead
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with her ribs broken in the home of her father, 25-year-old Darian McWoods.
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According to medical examiners, the toddler had enough methadone in her body to, quote,
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And during McWoods' three-week trial in Portland, there were a couple of theories that were presented
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For one thing, McWoods had a habit of mixing methadone with Capri Suns.
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So there was a chance that his daughter drank one of the mixtures by accident.
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Alternatively, prosecutors found evidence that McWoods would occasionally give small doses
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of the drug to his children in order to put them to sleep.
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And whichever theory you believe, or if you believe some other theory,
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McWoods was clearly responsible for the fact that his daughter had somehow ingested a highly
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She also had a trace amount of methamphetamine in her blood.
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And additionally, on top of the methadone and meth in her system, the girl had also suffered,
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quote, abusive injuries consistent with asphyxia, as well as a laceration of the liver and facial
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Those injuries may have been caused by McWoods' habit of, quote, plugging her nose and holding
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In other words, Darian McWoods killed his daughter in an extremely depraved manner.
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And in an insane society, he would have been executed a long time ago.
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Instead, McWoods was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole,
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following his conviction for murder by abuse, first-degree criminal mistreatment, and witness
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Now, at the time, the grandmother and great-grandmother, the 15-month-old victim, told reporters that
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they were relieved that McWoods couldn't harm any more children and that they finally had
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We, the jury, duly upheld and sworn in the above-entitled cause, define our verdicts upon
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I feel like it's kind of the start of some closure.
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It's something that just, you never really totally feel for, you know, but it's the start
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And I feel the same relief where Hill does, but I also feel relief that he won't be able
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So if you're keeping track, five years after Darian McWoods killed his own daughter, prosecutors
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in Portland finally decided to bring a case and secure a conviction.
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And the family, belatedly, is relieved that this depraved evil man is in prison.
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And what happened next is a case study in how equity and, quote unquote, restorative justice
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Even in cases where someone has already been convicted by a jury, and even when their crime
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is to torture and brutally murder a child, left-wing prosecutors and judges in Portland
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will still do everything in their power to ensure that the killer is somehow allowed to
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They do not feel any sense of shame or demonstrate any interest in protecting the public or protecting
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And that's why, instead of spending the rest of his life in prison, Darian McWoods is going
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After killing his own daughter and being convicted for it, Darian McWoods will walk free in about
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And in total, he will have spent just a few years in prison for torturing and murdering
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Now, to understand how this happened and how it implicates the entire so-called justice
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system in places like Portland, we need to go back to 2022.
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And that's when a court of appeals in Oregon decided to overturn Darian McWoods' conviction.
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Nearly four years to the day after Darian McWoods received a life sentence in the death of his
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15-month-old daughter, the murder conviction is overturned.
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Heard in the court of appeals, it was revealed the prospect of juries only two black jurors
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were removed by prosecutors and McWoods, a black man, was found guilty, producing concerns
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that underlying racial bias could have had an impact on this case.
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Everyone's acknowledging has these sort of baked-in or structural biases.
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In 2018, McWoods was found guilty of multiple charges, including murder by abuse, after his
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15-month-old daughter, Kamiya Flores, died in December of 2013.
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An autopsy not only found methadone in her system, but also broken ribs and proof of compression
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asphyxiation, meaning she was crushed until she couldn't breathe.
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It's frustrating to have to go through it again, and it's like ripping a Band-Aid off
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Her grandmother, Raquel Flores-Volstake, says she's ready to go through a trial again if
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she has to, but worries about the impact on her children, including Kamiya's little sister,
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The ruling from the appellate court was that McWoods didn't receive a fair trial because
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during jury selection, the prosecution prevented two black people from serving on the jury.
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Before we get into the specifics of this ruling and how absurd it is, it's important to realize
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that during jury selection, there are two ways that prosecutors and defense attorneys
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can veto a member of the jury and prevent them from serving.
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This means that the prosecution has to show the person is incompetent or severely biased
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Prosecution doesn't have to explain the reason for this challenge.
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They can just look at a juror, decide that they have a bad feeling about them, and issue
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a challenge that gets them kicked off immediately.
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The catch is that prosecutors and defense attorneys are only allowed a small number of
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In Oregon, for most trials, you only get three challenges.
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Additionally, you can't violate the Constitution, so you can't challenge all of the black jurors
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simply because you want to discriminate against black people.
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Even though data suggests that black jurors are substantially more sympathetic to black
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defendants, you still don't get to kick black jurors off the jury simply because they're
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If the defense thinks you're doing that, they can complain to the judge about it, and
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That's exactly what happened during the trial of Darian McWoods.
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The prosecutors got rid of two black jurors using their challenges, and on the spot, predictably,
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the defense claimed that racism was involved, but the trial court judge disagreed.
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He thought that it was completely reasonable to get rid of these two individuals.
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But on appeal, the court in Oregon decided that, indeed, the dismissal of these two jurors
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was racist, and therefore, McWoods gets a new trial for killing his daughter.
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Now, if you read the ruling from the appellate court, you immediately realize what a farce
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They did not uncover any evidence that the prosecutors had secret racial motivations.
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They didn't uncover that the prosecutors were posting on some secret KKK message board
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Instead, the appellate court determined that some white jurors were allowed to stay on the
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jury, even though they gave somewhat similar answers on their questionnaire as the two
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And therefore, the appellate court inferred that the prosecutors must have been motivated
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That's their entire justification for throwing out this conviction.
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This logic, such as it is, falls apart the moment you realize that answers on jury questionnaires
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are just one of many ways the prosecutors can size up a potential member of the jury.
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Here's what the prosecutor told the trial court judge right after issuing a challenge against
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Quote, frankly, he showed up to jury service wearing a shirt that says, I have issues.
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I don't know what that means, but that in and of itself is also concerning to the state.
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Yes, the black juror showed up with a shirt reading, I have issues.
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That's how he walked into the courtroom for jury selection for a high profile murder trial.
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Now, looking online, I found a few potential matching t-shirts that would fit this description.
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There's a lot of Deadpool stuff, but also more generic.
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In any event, whatever this shirt looked like exactly, and we don't know exactly what it was,
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It's a safe bet that juror number six should not have been seated on the jury for this reason alone.
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There are really only three options to explain this guy's decision to wear this shirt to trial.
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The first option, of course, is that he actually does have issues,
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in which case he's admitting to being disqualified.
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The second option is that he doesn't really have issues,
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but he wants to get out of jury duty, so he wore that shirt as a way of doing that.
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The third option is that he's an adult man wearing a Deadpool t-shirt to court
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And in all these cases, juror number six clearly should have been tossed immediately.
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This is a trial for a man who's killed a child.
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We need serious adults, serious people on the jury to deliberate and look at the evidence,
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And that's not even getting into the fact that on his jury questionnaire,
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he stated that it was, quote, possible that he might, quote,
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self-impose a higher standard of proof in a murder trial like this one.
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And we're also not getting into the fact that on his questionnaire,
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the juror said that he agreed with the statement that, quote,
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Keep in mind, juror number six was the only juror in the entire jury pool
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who admitted to the prosecution that he didn't trust DNA evidence,
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which seems like a valid independent reason to kick him off the jury in this case
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And again, it has nothing to do with skin color whatsoever.
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The same is true for the other black member of the jury who was kicked off.
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And here's the reason the prosecutors issued a challenge against him.
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Quote, he leaned towards strongly agreeing that he believes that in our criminal justice system,
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innocent people are routinely being found guilty.
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And then yesterday, he indicated that he was more likely to excuse behavior
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if the child was injured due to reckless conduct as opposed to intentional.
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There was quite a long discussion about that issue.
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And he was one of the few that actually volunteered and commented on a distinction in his mind
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between looking less concerned about conduct that occurred recklessly
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versus intentionally injuring this child, close quote.
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Again, we have a clear way to distinguish juror number nine from all the others.
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He engaged in a long discussion in which he said that he would excuse reckless behavior
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instead of intentional behavior while also repeating propaganda
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about how the criminal justice system is biased or whatever.
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So prosecutors had a very good reason to get rid of this guy as well.
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But on appeal, a three-judge panel in Oregon concluded that the prosecutors
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Concerning juror number six, the judges simply pointed to the fact that other members of the jury
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They completely ignored his t-shirt and his comment on DNA evidence being unreliable.
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And concerning juror number nine, the judges ignored the entire conversation about recklessness.
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With respect to concerns about statements made by juror number nine,
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we cannot conclude, based on the record, that juror number nine responded
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In other words, the appeals court said it couldn't verify the conversation,
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so they're just going to pretend it never happened.
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They're going to infer that the trial court judge,
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who was actually in the courtroom witnessing all of this,
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And then they're going to accuse the prosecutors of being racist,
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primarily because they happened to exclude the only two black people
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So they won't trust the conversation because they weren't there for it,
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and yet they can infer this invisible motivation
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So that they can confirm, but not the conversation that the judge was there for.
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The plausibility of the state's race-neutral reasons for excusing an otherwise qualified black juror
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That implausibility is evidence of purposeful discrimination.
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that you could have legitimate reason to get rid of two black members of the jury
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So, there are so many problems with that logic.
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Just because one claim to you, in your mind, is implausible, which it isn't.
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There's nothing implausible about finding reasons to get rid of two jurors.
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that in and of itself is not evidence for this other claim
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Now, this is yet another manifestation of the left's tendency,
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to infer racism simply on the basis of disparate impact.
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If you can ascertain that it affects black people
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There cannot be any other possible reason behind it.
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And the people who are responsible must be white supremacists.
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That's how they approach every situation like this.
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when you think about the judge who was on this panel
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I'm firmly committed to following the rule of law