• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    He has the right to be judged by a jury of his peers, and it appears as if his peers agree with his actions.

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      3 months ago

      “Friedman Agnifilo would ask potential jurors where they reside in Manhattan and where they get their news sources from to determine their political leanings,” Kerwick said.

      I mean, he is from a wealthy family, but there’s still not going to be many working class people in Manhattan.

      I think people are expecting too much from the jury.

      It’s going to be a bunch of insanely wealthy people who will 100% want to remind everyone the rich are untouchable

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            You have it backwards. 100k in Manhattan is not wealthy, let alone insanely wealthy. 11k is insanely impoverished, even if you live in the middle of nowhere.

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              I was living with about 10k CAD/y for a few years when I was single and I was mostly fine.

              Granted, this was in the 2010s. And of course I wasn’t in Manhattan, as you can guess by the currency.

              Now, I’m making about 70k CAD with a family (sole provider) and I’m just staying afloat.

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              I’ve had multiple injuries at work (and a few from sports) so am unable to do my former labor-type jobs. I’m also over 65 so retraining is out of the question.

              Worked minimum wage positions most of my life so have no savings and currently live in a rooming house.

              There’s lots of us out here scraping the bottom of the barrel just to survive.

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                That really sucks, and I’m genuinely sorry you’ve had to deal with all that. $100K USD can be eaten up very quickly depending on your city’s cost of living though. I’d imagine someone making $100k USD in Manhattan would be barely scraping by as well

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                  100K in Manhattan is nothing. My father was a principal earning $150K and still could barely get by in the city.

                  When apartments run total 40K annually, 100K is just a step above poverty wages.

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      3 months ago

      “As this man’s peers, you must be the judge of his actions.”

      “Ok”

      “Wait, not like that”

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        3 months ago

        Yup. The article mentions that the prosecutors have a problem, but the U.S. people certainly don’t.