Allow me to pretend I'm a modern day Nostradamus for a while by being the first here to predict that the next round of the never ending Trump Trials soap opera will be that one or more jurors from the latest one are gonna come out stating they voted "guilty" because they feared that they themselves and/or their families would be in danger if they didn't. That won't necessarily mean such a statement is true (though it is likely, and I sure would have if I were one of them) but the first to say it will take the lead in the race for a substantial book deal and possibly even a movie deal with Hollywood, or anti-Hollywood depending on how the chips fall. So because of the large amounts of money on stake with book and movie deals for anyone that has been involved in something that grabbed the public attention these days we'll pretty soon get to hear at least two kinds of juror retractions playing it up for drama (but unless they are backed up again in the future by deathbed confessions there will be no way to know for sure if those retractions really are true). One or several jurors will come out saying they felt pressured to vote "guilty" and then Fox and the Trump side will play that up as if that pressure came down hard from the court officials (and maybe it did, or maybe they just imagined, it makes no difference to what happens next even though those two reasons are totally different). Also, let's not forget that jurors feeling pressured to adjust their opinion is a rather normal thing in every single circumstance where the first vote or rounds of round-table opinion taking indicate that there is a 11-1 or 10-2 majority already in the air. That's a juror system by design, as opposed to old systems of just(ice) killing those the current King thought was guilty. So a jury majority slowly pressuring the minority into siding with a verdict (OR the minority swing the majority around to something that only a few saw at first) is democracy. Anyway - my larger point (as if this intro isn't long enough already) is that a court decision on a celebrity case these days is never really the end of procedings any more, it's just a diffent kind of starting point for the next clickbait extravaganza and money making media phase. Prepare yourselves accordingly.

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© Peter Andersson.

*Deliberate misspelling.

"Someone's to lay a stormy anecdote" would be a good title in itself, I almost went with it.