Baltimore is Doomed

So the first Freddie Gray trial is over, and the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. What does this mean for the city of Baltimore? Simply put, it is doomed. By playing the dindu gambit, they have put themselves on a treadmill of retrials until they get a verdict that can only result in more senseless Black violence and destruction.

The first Defendant to be tried was William Porter. Talking heads declared it to be the strongest case. He was charged with a hodgepodge of criminal acts. It is very difficult to prove manslaughter when your theory of the case is gross negligence. Assault though isn’t complicated, and the reckless endangerment and misconduct charges were just thrown into the mix to be gimmes in case the manslaughter wouldn’t stick. The fact that the lesser charges didn’t get a unanimous verdict means the state’s case is remarkably weak.

A hung jury doesn’t mean the case is over. However, rioting blacks on social media are already up in arms, claiming once again the white loojudicial system has failed. To the contrary, it has worked as designed. The jury is the fourth branch of government, designed to be a restraint on the executive branch. By refusing to convict a defendant, a jury says either a law is unjust (Nullification) or the evidence is insufficient. A hung jury means the 12 jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. They likely voted multiple times. There were seven blacks and five whites on the jury. Unfortunately we are not privy to the vote results, only the lawyers and judge know and a gag order is in place. It could be 11-1 to convict or acquit, or it could be split on racial lines. We may never know.

The big problem is that blacks will only be satisfied with a conviction, and in their eyes white jurors will never vote to convict a cop for shooting a black person. Because felons cannot sit on juries, and blacks commit most felonies in relation to their demographic percentage, it will be nearly impossible to sit an all black jury. And of course any lawyer worth his salt will make Batson objections to an all black jury.

What does this mean for Baltimore? The prosecution is stuck on a treadmill. They have to retry the case again. And if the second jury hangs they have to go again. If they abandon the prosecution blacks will riot. The more juries that hang, the more likely riots result. This will result in a change of venue, sending the trial to a county much less vibrant, making it even less likely to get black jurors and more likely to get acquittals. Whites are more focused on facts and law, this being the judicial descendant of the English legal tradition and not the ANC necklace court and all. This means the already weak case will have less people deciding it on racial lines. This ultimately leads to one almost certain conclusion:

Baltimore is doomed to burn.