Ashleigh Merchant
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547 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 Jul
Ashleigh Merchant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The more that we have these falsehoods that are tweeted out and we have people trying to make this about white supremacy when it's not and trying to just really ignite anger and violence on the street there and infect the jury with that.
What's the result?
The result is going to be sequestration.
what happens when we have sequestration we have a jury that is much more likely to convict there's tons of studies on that you sequester a jury really yes you sequester a jury and they work stronger together as a block and there's a lot less likelihood of any dissent so if you had a holdout for example they're going to be much more likely to all work together because they start working as a unit they get up in the morning as a unit they eat together as a unit all their meals
So they become more of a unit.
And there's a lot of studies that that is way more pro-prosecution than pro-defense.
So as the defense, we always argue against that.
We don't want sequestration.
Yeah.
I mean, he doesn't have to have to, but he I mean, if I were his lawyer, I would tell him you've got you can't have a self-defense claim without testifying.
I mean, technically, he doesn't have to, but he's never going to be able to be successful on self-defense if he doesn't testify.
And I think a lot of the things that we're seeing about this being white supremacy or this being racist is really gonna backfire, even if we have a stealth juror, because these people, if they're walking past all of these signs and they're seeing all this protesting on a daily basis as the jurors, they're expecting something significant to come out in that courtroom.
And, you know, jurors, Megan, always think that we're hiding something from them.
That's every single juror I've ever had has always said, we feel like we didn't get the whole story.
Right.
We are.
I mean, we're hiding unreliable evidence.
And so if they see that and then they go in and they don't hear a single word about racism where there's no evidence of racism, they're going to be left remaining thinking, you know, where is that?
Why are we not hearing that?
And I think they're going to hold that against the defense if the defense because the defense does there if they present an evidence presented defense, they've got to present some evidence of that defense, even if they do it through questioning the state's witnesses.
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