BROOKLYN — A jury of New Yorkers will return to court Monday, heading into their second week of deliberations in a landmark foreign-agent and corruption trial that reaches into two governors’ offices, struggling to decide whether former state official Linda Sun secretly served Beijing’s interests while she and her husband built a small business and luxury-property empire cashing in on pandemic-era contracts as other Americans were locked down.
The fact that the jury is deadlocked shows how fucked up NYC is. This is a slam dunk case period. This woman is an agent of China and her husband is a scammer too. The thought this jury cannot somehow come to a guilt verdict gleans the mindset of how juries are now using politics to judge people. This is a Trump DOJ case for the most part and the jury most likely sees letting her and her husband go free as an indictment of Trump and his going after immigrants. There’s no other rational way to frame it. This woman forged Hochul’s signature on state govt docs for China. If she and he husband go free politics has now entered juries and that is sad state of affairs for our legal system.
It is also alarming that the defence argument, of prosecutorial overreach by "criminalizing ordinary diaspora politics, networking and pandemic procurement" and the characterisation of this as just "routine back-and-forth involving a diaspora liaison", seems to have found traction with some jurors. This type of thinking will only get worse as China embeds itself more and more in Western countries. I shudder to think what would happen in an equivalent trial in Canada (if it was ever prosecuted), heard in Toronto or Vancouver. The jury would likely not still be deadlocked because they would have already acquitted.
The lawyer Sam earlier quoted is correct, this should have all been over once the prosecution proved their lavish lifestyle could not be explained by legitimate earnings.
After reading what appears to be insanity overall and denial of facts in this trail ,it brings to mind a paper I wrote in art school (of all places) of Mao's reign ,particularly the cultural revolution from 1966 - 1962 when the world was upside down with Mao unleashing his red guards on intellectuals , officials and civilians leading to mass beatings , public humiliations, and killings in the millions. He did not see any trial for the brutality but at least his wife was part of the gang of four that did in fact have a trail resulting in her imprisonment . I think Canada has already seen some of this "No interference" here that has been playing out ever since the virus debacle (and well before) - when people were treated as one and if they didn't go along , many things happened publicly , news sources were and are filled with propaganda , credible people were vilified for their dissenting voices to a lockstep narrative. How many in our government are secretly or maybe not so secretly serving Beijing's interests ? Meanwhile I suspect the Oscars being streamed on utube will get more attention
great work at comity again Sam.....hopefully some of those boneheads will start to listen!!!...i guess it depends on how many of them are on the take!!!cheers...and merry Christmas!!
The fact that the jury is deadlocked shows how fucked up NYC is. This is a slam dunk case period. This woman is an agent of China and her husband is a scammer too. The thought this jury cannot somehow come to a guilt verdict gleans the mindset of how juries are now using politics to judge people. This is a Trump DOJ case for the most part and the jury most likely sees letting her and her husband go free as an indictment of Trump and his going after immigrants. There’s no other rational way to frame it. This woman forged Hochul’s signature on state govt docs for China. If she and he husband go free politics has now entered juries and that is sad state of affairs for our legal system.
It is also alarming that the defence argument, of prosecutorial overreach by "criminalizing ordinary diaspora politics, networking and pandemic procurement" and the characterisation of this as just "routine back-and-forth involving a diaspora liaison", seems to have found traction with some jurors. This type of thinking will only get worse as China embeds itself more and more in Western countries. I shudder to think what would happen in an equivalent trial in Canada (if it was ever prosecuted), heard in Toronto or Vancouver. The jury would likely not still be deadlocked because they would have already acquitted.
The lawyer Sam earlier quoted is correct, this should have all been over once the prosecution proved their lavish lifestyle could not be explained by legitimate earnings.
After reading what appears to be insanity overall and denial of facts in this trail ,it brings to mind a paper I wrote in art school (of all places) of Mao's reign ,particularly the cultural revolution from 1966 - 1962 when the world was upside down with Mao unleashing his red guards on intellectuals , officials and civilians leading to mass beatings , public humiliations, and killings in the millions. He did not see any trial for the brutality but at least his wife was part of the gang of four that did in fact have a trail resulting in her imprisonment . I think Canada has already seen some of this "No interference" here that has been playing out ever since the virus debacle (and well before) - when people were treated as one and if they didn't go along , many things happened publicly , news sources were and are filled with propaganda , credible people were vilified for their dissenting voices to a lockstep narrative. How many in our government are secretly or maybe not so secretly serving Beijing's interests ? Meanwhile I suspect the Oscars being streamed on utube will get more attention
Is the jury sequestered?
great work at comity again Sam.....hopefully some of those boneheads will start to listen!!!...i guess it depends on how many of them are on the take!!!cheers...and merry Christmas!!