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Originally Posted by TCLGirls
Again your plan wouldn't work because the President's speech was not entered into trial evidence in the first place...so there is nothing to dissect.
Furthermore, the defense already agreed and were satisfied with the current jurors. Obviously ZIM felt they were untainted enough to proceed with trial or else they would have made a motion to change trial venue.
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Have you never heard of jury tampering? Attempting to taint the jury like Obama did can certainly be called jury tampering, though hard to prove.
By the way, the Executive branch isn't above the law...
There is a reason that laws like "Due Process of Law" exist...
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A fundamental, constitutional guarantee that all legal proceedings will be fair and that one will be given notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away one's life, liberty, or property. Also, a constitutional guarantee that a law shall not be unreasonable, Arbitrary, or capricious.
The constitutional guarantee of due process of law, found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, prohibits all levels of government from arbitrarily or unfairly depriving individuals of their basic constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, ratified in 1791, asserts that no person shall "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." This amendment restricts the powers of the federal government and applies only to actions by it. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, declares,"[N]or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" (§ 1). This clause limits the powers of the states, rather than those of the federal government.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedicti...Process+of+Law
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And Obama commenting on one side of a case before the trial even began -- or even during a trial, especially if the jury isn't sequestered -- is most definitely an attempt to taint and sway the public opinion of the trial...