“The concern you have as a prosecutor is that public support is going to make it into the jury room,” said Richard Schoenstein, a legal analyst and defense attorney.
“There definitely are people out there who assume this defendant committed the crime, but support him in doing so,” he said.
“There are some students who believe he is absolutely a justified vigilante … against this system, the American healthcare system, that they think is unjust.”
that just means the prosecutor didn’t do a good enough job stacking the jury with klansmen who hate italians.
populism in the jury is only as good as the population and it’s a disaster when the jurors are racist transphobes etc